Kat Smutz: 4 books

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, is an American icon. To many, he is a symbol of values, sacrifice and determination. Modern notions of nationalism, liberty, and constitution all owe their debt to Lincoln, as does...

The American Civil War has ended and everyone in American is free--except women.  They no right to vote, no right to own property, no right to control their own lives.  The rare exception is widows. Jocelyn Hightower's abusive husband is dead, but she knows freedom is too much to hope for. ...