Mighty Rough Times I Tell You

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• In 1929, the Social Sciences Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, began recording the oral histories of former slaves. During the mi... Lees meer

Voices from the Trail of Tears

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in th... Lees meer

I Was Born in Slavery

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• When you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don't think too mu... Lees meer

Cherokee Voices

Vicki Rozema

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• From the time they established formal ties with Great Britain in 1730, the Cherokees had a rocky relationship with white settlers. They found grounds ... Lees meer

Prayin' to Be Set Free

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• In his introduction to Prayin' to Be Set Free , Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state's l... Lees meer

Weren't No Good Times

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and researchers... Lees meer

The Jamestown Adventure

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• Using first-person documents, these narratives tell the story of the founding of Jamestown from 1605-1614. Lees meer

On Jordan's Stormy Banks

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• First-person narratives of 28 former Gerogia slaves edited from WPA slave narratives. Lees meer

Black Indian Slave Narratives

• Paperback | Engels | Real Voices, Real History Series
• Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Ame... Lees meer