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  • David S. Reynolds The best books about John Brown the abolitionist Book cover of John Brown Book cover of Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown Book cover of The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid Book cover of Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America Book cover of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
  • Richard J.M. Blackett The best abolitionist biographies from someone passionate about African American history Book cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent Book cover of David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
  • Laurence Fenton The best books on the life of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Book cover of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Young Frederick Douglass Book cover of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • Randy E. Barnett The best books on slavery and the constitution Book cover of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding, With a New Preface Book cover of The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 Book cover of Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
  • Rick Swegan The best books on moral courage in a world where courage seems to be lacking Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement Book cover of All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery Book cover of King: A Life Book cover of Profiles in Courage
  • Theresa Kaminski The best books on 19th-century women’s rights activists who weren’t Susan B. Anthony Book cover of Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Book cover of The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography Book cover of Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life Book cover of Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and The Scandalous Victoria Woodhull Book cover of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
  • Barbara Southard The best books about courageous women facing seemingly insuperable odds Book cover of The Invention of Wings Book cover of The Witches of Vardo Book cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of A Tiny Piece of Blue Book cover of Dovetails in Tall Grass
  • Bettye Kearse The best books by or about notable enslaved women Book cover of Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Book cover of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Book cover of Complete Writings Book cover of The Bondwoman's Narrative Book cover of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Douglas R. Egerton The best books to have won the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Book cover of Mourning Lincoln Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of For Cause and Comrade: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
  • Helen Lundström Erwin The best historical fiction novels about women who changed history Book cover of The Help Book cover of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Book cover of Daughter of the Reich Book cover of Someone Knows My Name Book cover of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
  • John C. Rodrigue The best recent books on emancipation during the U.S. Civil War Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery Book cover of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction Book cover of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation Book cover of Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
  • Jeff Matthews The best books to explain the Civil War (without all the boring battlefield stuff) Book cover of The Civil War in 50 Objects Book cover of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews With Former Slaves Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Book cover of Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
  • G. Elizabeth Kretchmer The best books with bad ass women in historical fiction Book cover of The Giver of Stars Book cover of The Obituary Writer Book cover of Orphan Train Book cover of The Invention of Wings Book cover of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
  • Katherine A. Sherbrooke The best novels inspired by the real lives of kick-ass women Book cover of The Invention of Wings Book cover of Circling the Sun Book cover of Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe Book cover of The Movement of Stars Book cover of Euphoria
  • Susan Garzon The best historical fiction about women slogging through turbulent times Book cover of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Book cover of The Women in the Castle Book cover of Nobilissima Book cover of The Madonnas of Leningrad Book cover of Hearts and Bones
  • Leo J. Garofalo The best books about Afro-Latin American and Afro-Andean history Book cover of Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire Book cover of Entangled Coercion: African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th–17th Century) Book cover of Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima Book cover of In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870 Book cover of The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru
  • Brad Asher The best books about the Civil War and the Lost Cause in Kentucky Book cover of The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border Book cover of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri Book cover of Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia Book cover of Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 Book cover of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
  • Michael C. White The best novels about slavery from both sides Book cover of The Confessions of Nat Turner Book cover of The Underground Railroad Book cover of Beloved Book cover of The Known World Book cover of Cloudsplitter
  • Susanna Ashton The best books with new discoveries in Black History Book cover of The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative Book cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
  • Elisabeth Griffith The best books about formidable Black women, whose lives mattered Book cover of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Book cover of The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family Book cover of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell Book cover of Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South Book cover of The Personal Librarian
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