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A children's multicultural history of the Civil War. This ambitious book emphasizes the roles of the children, women, minorities, and even animals that were inv

Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Antho

Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy socialite and abolitionist, joins forces with Mary Eliza Bowser, the daughter of two of Van Lew's family's freed slaves, to work fo

This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scra

During the Civil War, private printers in both the North and South produced a vast array of envelopes featuring iconography designed to promote each side's war