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  • John Shelton Reed The best books about the South that you’ve probably never heard of Book cover of Land of the South Book cover of This Land, This South: An Environmental History Book cover of Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind Book cover of Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South Book cover of Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History
  • Charles Reagan Wilson The best books to savor Southern foods Book cover of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South Book cover of Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History Book cover of The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South Book cover of The Taste of Country Cooking Book cover of Barbecue
  • 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
  • Mary Glickman The best southern themed books you’ve never heard of (maybe) Book cover of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady Book cover of The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner Book cover of Outer Dark Book cover of All Other Nights Book cover of The Frozen Rabbi
  • John Milliken Thompson The best non-Faulkner books from the American South Book cover of All the King's Men Book cover of Look Homeward, Angel Book cover of Lie Down in Darkness Book cover of The Dog of the South Book cover of The Old Forest and Other Stories
  • James C. Cobb The best books that "tell about the South" Book cover of The Mind of the South Book cover of Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of The Burden of Southern History Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War
  • A. M. Belsey A. M. Belsey's favorite books that tell the truth about the American South Book cover of Winter's Bone Book cover of As I Lay Dying Book cover of The Complete Stories Book cover of A Violent Gospel Book cover of True Grit
  • Ida Flowers The best books about everyday life in the Southern colonies Book cover of The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762 Book cover of The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant Book cover of Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History Book cover of Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Book cover of Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies
  • Kristina DuRocher The best books for understanding racial violence in the South after the Civil War Book cover of To Kill a Mockingbird Book cover of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 Book cover of Killers of the Dream Book cover of Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America Book cover of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
  • Kevin M. Levin The best books about slavery and the confederacy Book cover of Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War Book cover of Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South Book cover of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War Book cover of Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth: The Letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, First Lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry Book cover of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
  • Mary E. Stuckey The best books on why American politics are terrible and what to do about it Book cover of Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Book cover of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Book cover of Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office Book cover of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Book cover of How Democracies Die
  • Marcia E. Herman-Giddens The best books on ancestry, genealogy, racial justice and travel to find the truth Book cover of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth Book cover of The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 Book cover of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  • Robert Gwaltney The best books set in the gothic American South Book cover of Other Voices, Other Rooms Book cover of Swamplandia! Book cover of Twilight Book cover of Child of God Book cover of The Little Friend
  • 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
  • William C. Davis The best books on the politics of the Confederacy: the inner world of the 'Lost Cause' Book cover of The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics Book cover of A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States Book cover of A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy Book cover of Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy Book cover of 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
  • Susan Wittig Albert The best books about America’s toughest time: life in the dirty thirties Book cover of To Kill a Mockingbird Book cover of All the King's Men Book cover of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Book cover of Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 Book cover of Joy of Cooking 1931
  • Neta Jackson The best books about the gift of friendship across racial and cultural barriers Book cover of Where the Light Fell Book cover of Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South Book cover of The Hidden Wound Book cover of The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change Book cover of Wholehearted Faith
  • James Marten The best books on the common people of the Civil War Book cover of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps Book cover of A Prayer for the Dying Book cover of The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies Book cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Book cover of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  • 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
  • Clyde Edgerton The best books to help readers know how religion, family, humor, violence, love, and racism (and other isms) co-exist in America Book cover of A Curtain of Green & Other Stories Book cover of Native Son Book cover of Light in August Book cover of Sugar Among the Freaks Book cover of Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
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