Sue Monk Kidd heads to Nashville to read from her new novel set in pre-Civil War Charleston
…experiences social and political censure in Charleston, travels to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, embraces Quakerism, and meets prominent free-thinking leaders of the day, including women’s-rights pioneer Lucretia Mott; William Lloyd…
Rhonda Hicks Rucker’s Swing Low, Sweet Harriet is an exciting tale of Civil War espionage
…to the little ones!” It’s 1863 in this historical novel for young readers, and Ben and his family are slaves on a rice plantation during the Civil War. Ben works…
In a moving work of graphic nonfiction, Congressman John Lewis recalls his path from Nashville lunch counters to the National Mall during the American civil-rights movement
…addition to serving as Lewis’s press secretary and social-media manager is also a longtime student of comics and graphic novels. While the Washington memoir—usually weighing several pounds, almost always ghostwritten—is…
