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  • 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
  • Lori Benton The best books on plantation life in the Antebellum South (Colonial and early federal America) Book cover of Life on a Plantation Book cover of Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery Book cover of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South Book cover of Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies Book cover of The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
  • Charlotte Hinger The best books about African Americans in the West after the Civil War Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction Book cover of In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 Book cover of In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80 Book cover of The Black Towns
  • Kathleen Wellman The best books to understand the historical development of the Christian Right as a political power Book cover of The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Book cover of Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding Book cover of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism Book cover of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book cover of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
  • Brian Matthew Jordan The best books that lay bare the human ordeal of the Civil War Book cover of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps Book cover of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation Book cover of A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation Book cover of Mourning Lincoln Book cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
  • Eugene L. Meyer The best books about slavery and the Civil War era you should not miss Book cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War Book cover of A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom Book cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South Book cover of Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History Book cover of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
  • Matthew Dennis The best books for understanding how and why U.S. public monuments have become so controversial Book cover of Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape Book cover of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory Book cover of Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America Book cover of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek Book cover of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
  • Julian Sher The best books on the Civil War plots against Lincoln from Canada Book cover of Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln Book cover of African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War Book cover of The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier Book cover of Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation Book cover of John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away
  • Stephanie Hinnershitz The best books on one of America’s worst decisions during World War II: Japanese American incarceration Book cover of Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II Book cover of What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? Book cover of When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII Book cover of Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II Book cover of The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
  • Craig Lancto The best books to reveal the truth about the Pilgrims Book cover of Of Plymouth Plantation Book cover of Saints and Strangers Book cover of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving Book cover of The Story of America: From the Very Beginning Up to the Present Book cover of Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
  • Dean Snow The best books about the 1777 Saratoga campaign (American Revolution) Book cover of 1776 Book cover of The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom Book cover of Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution Book cover of The British are Coming Book cover of Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens
  • 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
  • Mike Bunn The best books to understand the Creek War of 1813 to 1814 Book cover of A Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813-14 Book cover of Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815 Book cover of A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 Book cover of Tennesseans at War, 1812-1815: Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans Book cover of The Creek War of 1813 and 1814 (Library Alabama Classics)
  • Lynn Downey The best books about the women of the American West Book cover of Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane Book cover of Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest Book cover of Twenty Thousands Roads: Women, Movement, and the West Book cover of Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West Book cover of Levi's & Lace: Arizona Women Who Made History
  • George C. Rable The best books on the American Civil War that creatively and provocatively go beyond the usual battles and leaders Book cover of Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Southern Community, 1861-1865 Book cover of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War Book cover of A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy Book cover of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War Book cover of The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
  • 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
  • Kermit Roosevelt III The best books to understand America Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Book cover of The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America Book cover of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution Book cover of America's Constitution: A Biography Book cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
  • Nina Silber The best books on the ongoing legacy of the American Civil War Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Book cover of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Book cover of On Juneteenth Book cover of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Book cover of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
  • Alexis Coe The best books about or around George Washington Book cover of The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon Book cover of Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic Book cover of Valiant Ambition Book cover of 1774: The Long Year of Revolution Book cover of The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
  • Charles Postel The best books on the struggle for equality in the USA Book cover of Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction Book cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression Book cover of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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