Volume 18, Number 7 · April 20, 1972
Is This History Necessary?
By Eric Foner, Naomi Foner
The Coming of the Civil War
by Robert Goldston
Macmillan, 117 pp., $4.95
Reconstruction: The Great Experiment
by Allen W. Trelease
Harper & Row, 224 pp., $4.95
The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885
by Dorothy Sterling
Doubleday, 352 pp., $4.95
Great Gettin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey
by John Oliver Killens
Doubleday, 138 pp., $3.95
Challenge to Become a Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
by Leah Lurie Heyn
The Feminist Press, 60 pp., $1.50 (paper)
Steal Away: Stories of the Runaway Slaves
edited by Abraham Chapman
Praeger, 196 pp., $6.95
To Be a Slave
by Julius Lester
Dell, 158 pp., $.75 (paper)
Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History
by Julius Lester
Dial, 176 pp., $4.95
All the books under review deal largely with the experience of American blacks or women, and all are the products of commercial publishers who sense a new market. Not merely—perhaps not even primarily—a market among young readers interested in history, but among teachers and librarians who want children to read books on these subjects, and who will be vulnerable to criticism if their schools and libraries fail to acquire them.
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