COLLECTION TWO: History
Learning from the past will always benefit the future. In this list we journey through history: from the American Civil War and Civil Rights to World War II and British Royalty, this is a collection of powerful and poignant moments in Western history.
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Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics by Marjorie Spruill
The story of two women's movements that drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives with far-reaching results
Our Man in Charleston by Christopher Dickey
Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation
To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape by Charles Spencer
The tantalizing tale of how the most wanted man in the country outwitted the greatest manhunt in British history
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Judge Richard Gergel
How the violent blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard drove a visionary judge, based in Charleston, to change the course of America’s civil rights history
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es
The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the most important African-Americans of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era