Voices from the Days of Slavery

Of general interest:

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, ed. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York: New Press; Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1998.

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Govenar, Alan B. African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Still,William. The Underground Railroad. Reprint of the 1872 ed. New York, Arno Press, 1968. (The American Memory collection, "African American Odyssey," provides a digital version of an early revised edition of this title: Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: People's Publishing Company, 1879.)

Especially for younger readers:

Fradin, Dennis B. Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves. New York: Clarion Books, 2000.

Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Hansen, Joyce and Gary McGowan. Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad. Chicago: Cricket Books, 2003.

Hudson, Wade. Powerful Words: More than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2004.

Rappaport, Doreen. Freedom River. New York: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.

Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941

Of general interest:

Bonnifield, Paul. The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Shindo, Charles J. Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. The Viking Press, 1939.

Especially for younger readers:

Andryszewski, Tricia. The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains. Brookfield, Conn.: The Millbrook Press, 1993.

Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl. N.Y.: Crown Publishers, 1992.

Stein, R. Conrad. The Great Depression. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1993.

Votes for Women, 1848-1921

Of general interest:

Flexner, Eleanor and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Graham, Sara Hunter. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Hays, Elinor Rice. Those Extraordinary Blackwells: The Story of a Journey to a Better World. N Y.: Harcourt Brace, & World, 1967.

Especially for younger readers:

Ashby, Ruth and Deborah Gore Ohrn, eds. Herstory: Women Who Changed the World. N.Y.: Viking, 1995.

Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? N.Y.: Putnam's, 1995.

McCully, Emily Arnold. The Ballot Box Battle. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.