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Taken by Indians
Author: Kevin Sweeney
Mary Rowlandson, captured by Indians in 1676 and marched into the “vast and howling Wilderness”, survived to write the first and perhaps most powerful example of the captivity narrative
March On Quebec
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
A Slave’s Audacious Bid For Freedom
Author: David W. Blight
The Nez Perce Flight For Justice
Author: R. David Edmunds
Lost At Sea For 24 Days
Author: Thomas Fleming
Steely determination enabled Eddie Rickenbacker, the World I ace pilot and president of Eastern Airlines, to survive drifting across the Pacific in a life raft.
Survivors America
Author: The Editors
Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other?
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed
To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
A Desperate Trek Across America
Author: Andrés Reséndez
As slaves, Cabeza de Vaca and his companions were forced to cope with native North America on its own terms, bridging two worlds that had remained apart for 12,000 years or more.
The Awful March Of The Saints
Author: David Roberts