Civil War & Reconstruction

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

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
by Justene Hill Edwards (Author)

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)

No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era Paperback – January 7, 2025
by Jacqueline Jones (Author)

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 History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers (The History of: A History Series for New Readers) Paperback – May 24, 2022
by Arlisha Norwood PhD (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

What Is Juneteenth? Paperback – April 5, 2022
by Kirsti Jewel (Author & Manuel Gutierrez (Illustrator)

The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery Paperback - September 8, 2020 by Matt Sandler

What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War Paperback – Illustrated, March 11, 2008
by Chandra Manning

Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and The Rise of Jim Crow Paperback, Illustrated - April 7, 2020 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.