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June 12, 2011
From The Brandon Sun (January 22, 2005): “The information provided in this book confirms what I have read in other books about Anne Frank, but the appeal of this one is beyond my expectations ...
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May 6, 2011
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April 5, 2011
In a review for the Exeter Alumni Bulletin, Marcia Carlisle, a former history teacher and a founder of the Exeter Humanities Institute, wrote,
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March 8, 2011
Mary Catherine Ball writes about Freedom Calls for the Bay Weekly. This feature includes a recipe for "coach wheels" -- something Abby and Louisa liked to eat.
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February 21, 2011
Historians ignored Harriet Tubman for decades after her death in 1913 (with a few intermittent exceptions). Ninety years later, in 2003, they took another look.
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February 4, 2011
From a Washington Post review about "race, teen woes, and hardship" by Mary Quattlebaum (May 12, 2001)
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January 18, 2011
"Meticulous about what is known and what is not confirmed, the simple prose is eloquent in describing how Tubman started as a passenger on the Underground Railroad and went on to become one of its...
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December 21, 2010
“This entry in the Know Your Government series is of special and timely interest.
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November 17, 2010
“The first really complete and accurate children’s book on the life of the Quaker abolitionist….Carefully researched, and written in a lively and compelling style, this book will introduce young re
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October 22, 2010
Kem Knapp Sawyer "begins with a valuable historical overview of displaced persons after World War I and II and then describes the past and present efforts of refugee-aid groups…A clear, dispassiona