Phyllis T. Smith
Song Yet Sung
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Written by the author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water, this novel is set in the 1850s. Liz, a runaway slave, ...Read Review
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
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At the age of sixty-six, Thomas Jefferson left the presidency and retired to his beloved home in Monticello. He died, famously on the 4...Read Review
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
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John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times from an Alabama plantation, ...Read Review
God of Luck
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God of Luck is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the trade in Chinese laborers, kidnapped and sold to the guano ...Read Review
Journey to San Jacinto
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Book Two in the Mr. Barrington’s Mysterious Trunk series opens when Hannah, a seventh grader, and her brother, Nick, return from a ...Read Review
What this Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
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No one can go back in time, conduct an opinion poll, and ask Civil War soldiers why they fought. Chandra Manning has done ...Read Review
Four Girls from Berlin
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When the author was small, a rabbi who had survived the Holocaust told her, “In you has your whole family been redeemed.” Meyerhoff’...Read Review
The Fall of Rome
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Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short, is becoming more ...Read Review
