The United States National 34-Star flag was adopted with the admission of Kansas as the 34th state in January 1861. It was used until 1863 when West Virginia became a state. At no time did the national flag lose stars.
A factual Civil War drama about a Confederate sympathizer who, although a civilian, was arrested by Union troops in 1864, tried before a military commission and convicted of crimes such as citing rebellion.
A profile of Sojourner Truth who embarks on a lifelong crusade against injustice. Beginning with her legal battle to free her son from slavery and continues through her years spent on the road preaching emancipation for all blacks.
An impressionistic, rather sketchy but generally effective portrait of Walt Whitman. He has long represented a problem for the American social machine. His poetry cannot be ignored.
