Carolyn Ross Johnston: 2 books

My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.   The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945,...

Explains how traditional Cherokee women's roles were destabilized, modified, recovered, and in some ways strengthened during three periods of great turmoil. American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee...