Twelve months of Deep Roots art, with the dates that matter circled in every month. Printed and shipped to order.

Worksheets, quizzes and Think & Write prompts for all seven volumes — with the full answer key in the back.

Twelve coloring scenes from the series, each with the true story behind the picture.

Twenty verified dates from 1811 to 2022 on one 18x24 classroom poster.

The order that freed Texas was read on June 19, 1865 — two and a half years after emancipation had already been declared. This book reads General Orders No. 3 line by line from the document itself, follows the $800 deed (the deed says $800, not $1,000) that bought Houston's Emancipation Park in 1872, counts the freedom colonies honestly — 557 recorded place names, 357 verified and mapped — and walks the road from Reedy Chapel's first Jubilee Day to the federal holiday.

After emancipation, freedpeople across Texas bought land and built towns of their own. Independence Heights, incorporated in 1915 and dissolved by its own residents' vote in 1928; Freedmen's Town, which paved its own streets; Deep Ellum; St. John Colony; Clarksville, with its founding question printed open; and Kendleton, whose ballot fight reached the Supreme Court in Terry v. Adams (1953).

Jack Yates and Antioch, with all three founding accounts printed side by side; Heman Sweatt's lawsuit told in the Supreme Court's own numbers from Sweatt v. Painter (339 U.S. 629); Texas Southern University's 1947 founding; Christia Adair's quiet wars, with not one invented quotation; Barbara Jordan in her own documented words; and the 1960 sit-ins that desegregated Houston's lunch counters.

Resistance read against the grain of a record written by the men who crushed it. Pointe Coupee 1795; the 1811 German Coast Uprising with its numbers held to the eyewitness range of 150–500 participants; Charles Deslondes, killed without trial, of whom no likeness exists; Congo Square under its 1817 ordinance; and Solomon Northup, freed at Marksville in 1853.

Homer Plessy's planned arrest and Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) — with the pardon of January 5, 2022, and an honest note that no verified portrait of Plessy exists; the Creoles of color anchored to the 1860 census; the Mardi Gras Indians' year of sewing; Zulu's documented floor — the notarial incorporation of September 20, 1916; and McDonogh's paradox.

Shreveport's Bottoms, National Register-listed October 11, 1984; Lead Belly, his birth given as the attributed range January 1885–1889 and the 'sang his way out' story labeled legend; Sarah Breedlove of Delta, Louisiana, who became Madam C. J. Walker; the Great Migration out of North Louisiana; and the church mothers and lodge halls that carried the community.

The Louisiana-to-Texas corridor as one people's history: the roads and rails that ran it; the other Great Migration that stayed South; Frenchtown, organized 1922, where the corridor could be heard in zydeco; the author's own family traced from documented records only, with the open questions printed as open questions; and why the receipts outlast the erasure.