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This summer I am reading up on the Civil War. The Plantation mistress looks at the wives of those men who had huge plantations. You know the woman who always get romantized. Clinton does a good job of illustrating how restricted the women were while not using that as a reason to feel sorry for th...
Very fascinating read about a pretty amazing woman.
Read my full review: http://bit.ly/1gDzthvMy opinion: Although I knew the better chunk of this information already, I loved the first hand accounts and the plentiful pictures the author provided to supplement this well researched book. I love putting a face/name of the Civil War. I have already read...
I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this one. While the author doesn't really go into any depth into her subject, it does make a good introduction to the life and times of Mary Lincoln, and I was both intrigued and appalled by the treatment that she received after her husband's dea...
I thought this would be mildly interesting, because of the Canadian connection (Tubman brought her family to Upper Canada, and lived in St. Catharines for a time, though she returned fairly quickly to New York State), but it turned out to be more than that. Not having had an American upbringing, I h...