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  • Fergus M. Bordewich The best books on the bloody history of Reconstruction Book cover of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era Book cover of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Book cover of Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy Book cover of The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Book cover of The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • 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
  • 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.
  • William A. Blair The best books on racial violence, fake news, and voter suppression in the post-Civil War South Book cover of To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction Book cover of News of the World Book cover of A Fool's Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction Book cover of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War Book cover of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
  • John Poniske The best books to help us reflect on our current cultural impasse Book cover of The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Book cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South Book cover of The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War Book cover of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
  • Elizabeth Bell The best novels about the human toll of American slavery Book cover of The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses Book cover of The Prophets Book cover of Douglass' Women Book cover of Sister of Mine Book cover of Freeman
  • Lee Ann Timreck The best books on the activism of African American women from emancipation through Jim Crow Book cover of Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject Book cover of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Book cover of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America Book cover of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction Book cover of A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
  • 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
  • Reed Hundt The best books on history relevant to the present and near future Book cover of The Cold War: A World History Book cover of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Book cover of Into Battle, 1937-1941 Book cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Book cover of The Plot Against America: A Novel
  • 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
  • Stephanie Harrison The best stories that have been adapted again and again… and again Book cover of Barn Burning Book cover of The Elephant Vanishes: Stories Book cover of Forty Stories Book cover of A New and Glorious Life Book cover of The Dead
  • 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
  • Marybeth Gasman The best books on the history of African American education Book cover of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 Book cover of Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi Book cover of Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • Joan E. Cashin The best books on gender and race in 18th and 19th Century America Book cover of Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island Book cover of Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution Book cover of Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South Book cover of Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest Book cover of Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Kellie Carter Jackson The best books that center on black resistance to white supremacy with a path toward liberation Book cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action Book cover of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Book cover of Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
  • Martha Saxton The best books to open doors to Early America Book cover of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South Book cover of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 Book cover of Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
  • Michael Burlingame The best books on Lincoln as an anti-racist Book cover of The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics Book cover of Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership Book cover of Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times Book cover of Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography Book cover of Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood
  • Melissa Hart The best middle grade books about total family meltdowns Book cover of Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Book cover of Rain Reign Book cover of Ghost Book cover of Lily and Dunkin Book cover of Sugar
  • Daniel Byman The best books for understanding white supremacy Book cover of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway — And Its Aftermath Book cover of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Book cover of Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan Book cover of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Book cover of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right
  • David Prior The best books on how the Civil War changed history Book cover of Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction Book cover of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household Book cover of Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image Book cover of West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War Book cover of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
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