The Acadians: One Acadian Family and les Maudits Anglais (the Damn English)

He traced his friend's name on a cold stone wall. Then he told her everything.

Standing before the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an old veteran reaches back across centuries to tell his granddaughter the truth about where they came from. Not just a family history, but the story of an entire people built from the earth up, only to have it taken from them.

The Acadians carved a life from wild coastland, built farms from saltwater marshes, and forged a culture entirely their own. But they lived be...