A girl helps her mother sew the huge flag flown over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became America’s national anthem.
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The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
Picture book biography of self-taught African American man, who publishes an almanac and writes a letter to Thomas Jefferson to accuse him of hypocrisy.
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The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln
Picture book biography of Allan Pinkerton, the first detective at the Chicago Police Department, featuring an episode of his preventing an early assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln during his inaugural train ride from Springfield, IL to Washington DC.
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True North
14 yo white Bostonian girl helps an African American runaway slave girl, told in alternating points of view.
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Jacob Have I Loved
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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Picture book biography in verse of life of Henry “Box” Brown, an African American slave who mailed himself to freedom. With back matter.
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