Civil War & Reconstruction

"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era Hardcover – October 18, 2022
by Rita Roberts (Author)

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Paperback – Abridged, January 6, 2015
by Eric Foner

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 Paperback – May 1, 2001
by John C. Rodrigue (Author)

Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America Hardcover – Illustrated, November 1, 2016 by Douglas R. Egerton

Native Guard: Poems Paperback – April 3, 2007
by Natasha Trethewey (Author)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 1998
by James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Author)

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike (True Crime) Paperback – November 14, 2016
by John DeSantis (Author), Foreword by Burnell Tolbert (Foreword)

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Paperback – January 7, 2020
by David W. Blight

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America) Hardcover – November 26, 2018
by Amy Murrell Taylor

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Paperback – January 5, 2005
by Catherine Clinton

Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Paperback – February 1, 2016
by Heather Andrea Williams

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis) Hardcover – January 26, 2021 by Deborah Willis