Three colorful versions of American Stars Block #7 Gramercy Park by Dena Brannen Erica Cannon & Joan Hinchcliff Photoshopped together....

Brooklyn's Sanitary Fair, 1864 We know quite a bit about women's work during the war, particularly about raising money for soldiers...

  American Stars #8  Steadfast Star by Becky Brown The block recalls the steadfast May family of reformers. The May family traces their Amer...

South Carolina school teacher with the shadow of Fort Sumter in the background. Elizabeth Hyde Botume (1823-1904) was one of the teachers wh...