Public History & Memory

Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory Hardcover – April 7, 2026 by John Garrison Marks (Author)

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Paperback – February 1, 2022
by Tiya Miles (Author)

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Paperback – February 28, 2023
by Imani Perry (Author)

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery Paperback – June 6, 2023 by Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier

Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era) Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2017
by Tiya Miles

A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars Paperback – February 14, 2023
by Erin Sharkey (Editor)

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America Hardcover – September 30, 2025
by Sonja Cherry-Paul (Adapter), Clint Smith (Author)

Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum Paperback – March 15, 2022
by Amy E. Potter (Author), Stephen P. Hanna (Author), Derek H. Alderman (Author), Perry L. Carter (Author), Candace Forbes Bright (Author), et. al

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future Hardcover – September 10, 2024
by Jason Stanley (Author)

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Hardcover – January 7, 2025
by Irvin Weathersby Jr. (Author)

How The Word is Passed - June 1, 2021
by Clint Smith
who visits Whitney in Chapter 2

Talking Back to History With The Creative Writers of Lake Area NTEC High School