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The Water Dancer
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The Water Dancer

By Ta-Nehisi Coates ,

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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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The Cooking Gene

By Michael W. Twitty ,

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The Nickel Boys
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The Nickel Boys

By Colson Whitehead ,

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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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Confederate Reckoning

By Stephanie McCurry ,

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The Kitchen House
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The Kitchen House

By Kathleen Grissom ,

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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
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Deep Roots

By Avidit Acharyo , Matthew Blackwell , Maya Sen

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Freeman
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Freeman

By Leonard Pitts, Jr. ,

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By F. Scott Fitzgerald ,

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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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Tales from the Haunted South

By Tiya Miles ,

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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
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Hold Still

By Sally Mann ,

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Cane
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Cane

By Jean Toomer ,

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Mornings in Mexico
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Mornings in Mexico

By D.H. Lawrence ,

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

By Kiese Laymon ,

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Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy From Birth to Death: From Original Notes, Collated in the Years 1861 to 1865
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Four Years in Rebel Capitals

By Thomas C. DeLeon ,

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Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
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Slaves Waiting for Sale

By Maurie D. McInnis ,

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Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
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Something Rich and Strange

By Ron Rash ,

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
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Sit-In

By Andrea Davis Pinkney , Brian Pinkney (illustrator) ,

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A Gracious Plenty
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A Gracious Plenty

By Sheri Reynolds ,

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Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa
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Riding High

By Sandra Swart ,

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Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War
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Marching Masters

By Colin Edward Woodward ,

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Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
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Bartram's Living Legacy

By William Bartram ,

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
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Medicalizing Blackness

By Rana A. Hogarth ,

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It's Not Like I Knew Her
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It's Not Like I Knew Her

By Pat Spears ,

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Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821
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Jackson's Sword

By Samuel J. Watson ,

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Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
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Indians in the Family

By Dawn Peterson ,

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Byrd
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Byrd

By Kim Church ,

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Deep South
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Deep South

By Paul Theroux , Steve McCurry (photographer) ,

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The Hidden Wound
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The Hidden Wound

By Wendell Berry ,

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The Almost Sisters
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The Almost Sisters

By Joshilyn Jackson ,

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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
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After Appomattox

By Gregory P. Downs ,

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Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism
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Scalawag

By Edward H. Peeples , Nancy MacLean (editor) ,

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The Frozen Rabbi
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The Frozen Rabbi

By Steve Stern ,

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The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
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The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

By Anthony Gross ,

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A Voice From the South
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A Voice From the South

By Anna J. Cooper ,

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Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
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Slavery's Exiles

By Sylviane A. Diouf ,

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Lark! The Herald Angels Sing
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Lark! The Herald Angels Sing

By Donna Andrews ,

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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews With Former Slaves
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Slave Narratives

By Work Projects Administration ,

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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
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The Potlikker Papers

By John T. Edge ,

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The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South
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The New Southern-Latino Table

By Sandra A. Gutierrez ,

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Barbecue
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Barbecue

By John Shelton Reed ,

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The Sweet Gum Tree
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The Sweet Gum Tree

By Katherine Allred ,

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A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
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A Lowcountry Heart

By Pat Conroy ,

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Strom Thurmond's America
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Strom Thurmond's America

By Joseph Crespino ,

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Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman
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Please Be with Me

By Galadrielle Allman ,

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Again, Alabama
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Again, Alabama

By Susan Sands ,

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Coyote Settles the South
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Coyote Settles the South

By John Lane ,

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney

By Lorri Glover ,

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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

By Kimberly M. Welch ,

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Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports
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Jim Crow Terminals

By Anke Ortlepp ,

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Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill
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Something Rotten

By Heather L. Montgomery , Kevin O'Malley (illustrator) ,

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Arkansas Summer
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Arkansas Summer

By Anne Moose ,

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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They Were Her Property

By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ,

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Treeborne
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Treeborne

By Caleb Johnson ,

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Relieve Us of This Burthen
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Relieve Us of This Burthen

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Eveningland
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Eveningland

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