A biography of the American author who, in writing Uncle Tom's cabin, revealed the cruelties of slavery and further split an already divided country.

Details the life and achievements of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe whose book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", is said to have started the Civil War.

"For Walt Whitman, living and working in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War, Reconstruction meant not only navigating these tumultuous years alongside his fellow citizens but also coming to terms with his own memories of the war. Just as the work of national reconstruction would continue long past its official end in 1877, Whitman's own reconstruction would continue throughout the remainder of his life as he worked to revise his poetic project--and...

Describes how a patriotic and eloquent attorney was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.