Meet American heroes like Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Join abolitionists and slave owners in their fiery debates. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as the endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil. A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization. Reconstruction begins as a time of great hope.
Cities spread, farms grow where buffalo once roamed.
A Dear America book. This engaging addition to the successful Dear America series follows the adventures of Amelia Martin, a lighthouse keeper's daughter living on an island off the coast of Delaware in 1861. Amelia helps her father keep the light and her mother keep the house, but she cannot keep their marriage together. A Dear America book. A Confederate girl growing up in the South during the Civil War reveals the hardships of southern life as the war tore her family and the nation apart.