southern states

Examines the events after the Civil War, known as reconstruction, and the challenges faced by politicians in rebuilding the Union. Discusses the early stages of bringing civil rights to recently freed slaves, and provides a broad overview of the challenges and successes of rebuilding the nation with different racial and federal government priorities. Includes a timeline, a glossary, maps, archival images, and resources for further information.

Ten-year-old Beth is kidnapped from her Georgia home and held captive, relying only on her will to survive. Seven years later, Imogene is burying her father, a Klan leader, when she is confronted with his secrets--a child in a locked basement on her father's property. Imogene's search for the child's mother leads her to Beth's disappearance years before, and she presses ahead looking for answers despite the threat of retaliation from the Klan that could change Imogene's life forever.

When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel about the realities of slavery in the pre-Civil War South.

Two children in a small southern town in the 1930s are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father defends a black man charged with raping a white girl.

The Black Panther--T'Challa, King of the small African nation of Wakanda--returns to his kingdom where he faces interlopers and would-be revolutionaries in one of comicdom's first multi-issue story arcs. Over its course, the life and culture of the Wakandans is explored in detail. Then, the Black Panther is sent to the American South to seek justice for a murder connected to the Klan and the Soul Strangler. Also includes the Panther's first appearance, featuring the Fantastic Four.

Chronicles the adventures of African slave Esteban Dorantes and three Spanish noblemen, who explored the American South between 1500 and 1539 and survived shipwreck, famine, Indian attacks, and disease.

A collection of thirty-nine previously published and two unpublished stories by twentieth-century American author Eudora Welty.

Traces the struggles of African Americans from the end of slavery through the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the civil rights movement and legal equality.

Contains twelve vampire stories set in the American South, including selections from Susan Schwartz, Manly Wade Wellman, Dan Simmons, and others.