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Kindling the Forgotten Flame
by David C. Witte
Beneath the marble statues and textbook legends lie the voices history nearly forgot. In luminous verse, explorers, reformers, and visionaries, from Estebanico and Harriet Tubman to Mother Jones and Buffalo Calf Road Woman, reveal the courage and sacrifice that helped shape America.
Part history, part poetry, this collection reminds us that the nation was built not only by presidents and generals, but also by ordinary people whose stories still echo across the generations.
In a nation that celebrates its presidents, generals, and tycoons, the voices that truly built America often fade into silence. Echoes of America brings those voices back to life.
Through vivid, lyrical portraits, this collection illuminates the lives of remarkable yet overlooked Americans: Estebanico, the Moroccan born explorer who crossed the Southwest before it appeared on any map; Crispus Attucks, the first to fall in the struggle for independence; Harriet Tubman, who repeatedly risked everything to lead others to freedom; Robert Smalls, who seized a Confederate ship in one of the Civil War's most daring escapes; Buffalo Calf Road Woman, the Cheyenne warrior of Little Bighorn; Mother Jones, Sojourner Truth, Bass Reeves, Sara Winnemucca, and many more.
Blending poetry with historical insight, each piece explores the courage, resilience, and humanity of explorers, labor leaders, freedom seekers, Indigenous heroes, and reformers whose contributions have too often been overlooked. From frontier trails and Civil War battlefields to factory floors and tribal homelands, these stories reveal an America shaped not only by the famous but by ordinary people whose extraordinary lives changed the nation.
Powerful, moving, and deeply human, Echoes of America is both a literary tribute and an invitation to rediscover the forgotten voices that continue to echo through the American story.
Perfect for readers of history, poetry, and narrative nonfiction who seek a richer, more inclusive understanding of America's past.
Through poetry and prose, we tell the stories that need to be told. We publish books that illuminate the past, engage the present, and imagine a better future.
A Direction, Not a Destination
Before it was called Christianity, the earliest followers of Jesus simply called it the Way.
What if the heart of Jesus' message has never been lost, only covered over?
In The Way, Brother Lucas Sage invites readers beyond denominational labels and religious certainty to rediscover the living path Jesus taught. Drawing from the Gospels, the Hebrew prophets, Stoic wisdom, Platonic philosophy, and the voices of the early church, he uncovers a faith rooted in love, mercy, community, and daily transformation.
Neither a call to abandon Christianity nor a defense of institutional religion, The Way offers something different: an invitation to recover the ancient path that existed before Christianity became a religion of creeds and institutions.
Whether you have spent a lifetime in church, walked away from it, or are seeking a deeper and more authentic faith, this book offers a simple invitation.
The Way is a direction, not a destination.
The Father is already running.
Begin again.