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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
I'm still standing	Shoshana Johnson	Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a member of the 507th Maintenance Company, was captured during an ambush in the early days of the Iraq war and held prisoner until she and her fellow Soldiers were rescue…	OL13783862W
Buffalo soldiers	Catherine Reef	Recounts the deeds of the 9th and 10th Cavalry, comprised of African American soldiers who kept peace between Indians and settlers on the western frontier, fought in the Spanish-American War, and pur…	OL15280993W
Black heroes of the American Revolution	Burke Davis	An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence.	OL16007W
Black patriots and loyalists	Alan Gilbert	How the contradiction between American freedom and American slavery played out among white insurgents, colonial slaves (and a smaller number of free blacks) and the British during the Revolutionary W…	OL16126895W
Fighting for freedom	National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)	80 pages : 18 cm	OL19710700W
The Reaper	Nicholas Irving	A memoir by a Special Operations Direct Action Sniper traces his extraordinary career during the War on Terror, which was marked by his record-setting deployment to Afghanistan and his face-off again…	OL19991326W
Forgotten	Linda Hervieux	In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons mea…	OL20016137W
Writing to save a life	John Edgar Wideman	193 pages ; 22 cm	OL20038701W
Hidden heroism	Robert B. Edgerton	In Hidden Heroism, Robert B. Edgerton chronicles the history of African-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian War to the present. He argues that blacks in America have l…	OL2005771W
Tuskegee airmen	Lynn M. Homan	96 p. : 24 cm	OL2040172W
Taking on Theodore Roosevelt	Harry Lembeck	In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded. Because the perpetrators…	OL21201430W
Freedom journey	Edythe Ann Quinn	"The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War. Through wonderfully detailed letters, recruit rosters, and…	OL23186009W
The trials of Henry Flipper, first Black graduate of West Point	Don Cusic	"Passages from Flipper's autobiography (published in 1878) and excerpts from contemporary military reports as well as newspaper articles contribute firsthand observations to this biography of West Po…	OL2638953W
The Forgotten Heroes	Clinton Cox	It's a novel about the war between the Buffalo Soldiers and the Indians. Though the Buffalo Soldiers were fighting for the people, the people were fighting them because they were colored. This book t…	OL2737246W
The Saltville massacre	Thomas D. Mays	91 p. : 23 cm	OL2934938W
Henry O. Flipper	Kathryn Browne Pfeifer	Examines the life of the first African American graduate of West Point, including his dishonorable discharge from the Army which was reversed nearly 100 years later.	OL3913299W
Lost Battalions	Richard Slotkin	Constructed as a military history of two American army regiments of World War I, Slotkin's narrative functions as an inquiry into the soldiers'racial and ethnic backgrounds. Both units were raised in…	OL464108W
American patriots	Gail Lumet Buckley	American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American milit…	OL4963314W
Honoring Sergeant Carter	Allene G. Carter	Allene Carter's father-in-law was a decorated veteran. Yet it was not until the Carter family received a call from the White House that she discovered he was a heroic force in the Rhineland campaign.…	OL5957894W
The Massachusetts 54th	Gina DeAngelis	Explains the events leading up to the formation of the Massachusetts 54th, a regiment of free blacks, and its participation in the Civil War. Sidebars include quotations from leaders of the time and …	OL66685W