When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation

A fan of Kristin Hannah's historical fiction? Curious about what caused the American Civil War but turned off to reading straight history because of the way it was taught in schools, with over emphasis on memorizing dates, speeches, and politics? Nonfiction history can be just as interesting to read as historical fiction if told by a great storyteller.

"Lisa Waller Rogers' storytelling brilliance lies in her ability to humanize historical figures as multidimensional individuals grappling wit...