Clinton, Catherine

Explores the lives of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth--two women who lived very similar lives--and imagines what was said between them during their one and only meeting.

An introduction to the Civil War battle of Morris Island, South Carolina, during which Sergeant William H. Carney became the first African American to earn a Congressional Medal of Honor by preserving the flag.

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

Presents the life of Harriet Tubman, and focuses on her earliest struggles, her work on the Underground Railroad as a fugitive slave and conductor, and as a Union Army Spy during the Civil War.

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eye witness accounts, and period art.

A comprehensive biography on the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, describing her aristocratic Kentucky upbringing, marriage and children, and personal struggles after the deaths of two of her children and the assassination of her husband in 1865.

Chronological depiction of the civil war.

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.