50 Books in the HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Category

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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation

Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
Load in Nine Times: Poems

Load in Nine Times: Poems
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation

Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln

The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies

Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
The Marshall Legacy in Black and White

The Marshall Legacy in Black and White
On Juneteenth

On Juneteenth
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—And Why It Failed

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—And Why It Failed
EMMA

EMMA
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom
Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors

Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors
The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada;

The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada;
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War

City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded

A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded

Emancipation Proclamation, Forever Free

Emancipation Proclamation, Forever Free
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
The Fire Of Freedom: Abraham Galloway And The Slaves’ Civil War

The Fire Of Freedom: Abraham Galloway And The Slaves’ Civil War
Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
A Fragile Freedom

A Fragile Freedom
The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause

The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne

Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne
Lincoln On Race And Slavery

Lincoln On Race And Slavery
Looking For Lincoln: The Making Of An American Icon

Looking For Lincoln: The Making Of An American Icon
Big Enough To Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery And Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

Big Enough To Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery And Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream

Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
Blue-Tail Fly

Blue-Tail Fly
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Slavery and the Making of America

Slavery and the Making of America
Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868

Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream

Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol

Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy

Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation
Slaves No More

Slaves No More
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)
The Negro in the Civil War

The Negro in the Civil War