Flight to Freedom, The Story of the Underground Railroad by Henrietta Buckmaster. Eighteen years after Buckmaster wrote Let My People Go, she wrote this work, which concerns much of the same material but which is geared toward younger readers. Chapters are shorter and less detailed and her style i

All About, Sir Walter Raleigh by Henrietta Buckmaster. This is Buckmaster’s contribution to a series of books (the All About series) for young readers. Sir Walter Raleigh emerges as a complex, heroic individual whose life of adventure is marked by great highs and lows. The book is an exciting

Wait Until Evening by Henrietta Buckmaster (novel). The title comes from a quote from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex: “One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.” The title gives hope that the protagonist, Catherine Mills, will find solace at the end of her challenging ordea

Let My People Go by Henrietta Buckmaster. This seems to have been Buckmaster’s first book. It came out in 1941, and recounts the highly dramatic and complex story of slavery in America, of the forces that sought to hold onto it and the forces that wanted to abolish it. Here is history where cong

The Seminole Wars by Henrietta Buckmaster. The story of the conquest of Florida is full of valiance and betrayal, colorful chiefs with curious names such as Wild Cat, Osceola, The Prophet, and Tiger Tail, and American military men who treated their adversaries with the gamut of postures – from adm

Paul: A Man who changed the World by Henrietta Buckmaster. As a Lutheran minister’s daughter, I grew up hearing a reading from Paul’s letters every Sunday in church. Like Buckmaster, I found Paul’s epistles compelling. Who can forget his “faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is

All the Living, A Novel of a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by Henrietta Buckmaster. To depict a figure as illustrious a Shakespeare in a work of fiction requires a courageous writer. Buckmaster tackles this task with energy; scenes spring to life and a very human Will emerges. Li

The Lion in the Stone by Henrietta Buckmaster (novel). The secretary-general of the UN is the protagonist of this post-Vietnam war novel. Devan Moragodo, a Ceylonese diplomat, heads up this powerful international body and is pleased to preside over what appears to be a moment of peace, one

Women who Shaped History by Henrietta Buckmaster (must have been sometime in the 1920’s) This book contains profiles of six nineteenth-century women who pried open the door to male-dominated arenas, making access a little more possible for the women who followed. Dorothea Dix took on the pl