The Freeman Legacy Saga: Educator Edition

Seven novels. One family. The soldiers the record left out.

After the Civil War, Congress opened the peacetime Army to Black men. The Freeman Legacy Saga follows one invented Kansas family through four generations of that service: the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry on the frontier, the Twenty-fifth Infantry at El Caney, the Brownsville discharges of 1906, Houston in 1917, and the Twenty-fourth Infantry in Korea. Every book is told by Thomas Freeman, writing about 1985 from a cedar chest of family records, who tells the reader where he keeps the record and where he builds from it.

This Educator Edition gives teachers everything they need to teach one novel or all seven, and to teach students how history is made, kept, and lost.

Inside this edition (136 pages, PDF):

• A chapter-by-chapter guide to all 196 chapters: who, where, and when, a summary, three discussion questions, and what is record and what is invention
• Seven ready-to-teach lessons, one per book, each with a warm-up, read-aloud, analysis task, discussion, and exit ticket
• Student handouts with a teacher answer key, plus support for developing readers, English learners, and advanced students
• The history behind the saga, a timeline from 1865 to 1985, the Freeman family tree, a who’s who, and vocabulary
• Teaching with Care notes on difficult content, writing prompts, a rubric, and a referenced sources section that shows where the sources disagree

For grades 9 to 12 and college courses in American history, African American history, military history, and literature, and for homeschool families, library programs, and reading groups. Download the free sample to see a lesson and handout before you buy. A free Book Club Guide is also available for each novel.