Southern History
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings 4. 
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings 
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
by:
Taylor Branch
4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings 
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics 1830-1930
by:
Anne Firor Scott
3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings 20. 
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
by:
Anne Moody
4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings 21. 
The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States 3.88 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.29 avg rating — 130 ratings 27. 
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
by:
Edward L. Ayers
3.89 avg rating — 213 ratings 28. 
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.20 avg rating — 163 ratings 29. 
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,507 ratings
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Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 12: Music
by:
Bill C. Malone
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 35. 
A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy
by:
William C. Davis
4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
by:
Richard Bell
4.04 avg rating — 1,045 ratings 35. 
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital: Vol 2
by:
J.B. Jones
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
by:
Carl Bridenbaugh
3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings 40. 
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating — 24,892 ratings 
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The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family
by:
Paul C. Nagel
3.91 avg rating — 100 ratings 
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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics 4.30 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War 4.03 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Creating Colonial Williamsburg: The Restoration of Virginia's Eighteenth-Century Capital
by:
Anders Greenspan
2.88 avg rating — 34 ratings 53. 
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by:
Jon Meacham
4.50 avg rating — 6,505 ratings 53. 
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
by:
John Reeves
3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings 
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The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA
by:
Taylor Branch
3.98 avg rating — 224 ratings 56. 
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
by:
Paul Hendrickson
3.82 avg rating — 250 ratings 59. 
The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
by:
George C. Rable
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 59. 
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
by:
Radley Balko
4.03 avg rating — 5,038 ratings 
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
by:
Ned Sublette
4.01 avg rating — 1,580 ratings 
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The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
by:
Curtis Wilkie
3.93 avg rating — 1,066 ratings 66. 
Place Over Time: The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness
by:
Carl N. Degler
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 70. 
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861 3.94 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
by:
Andrew B. Lewis
4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings 77. 
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 80. 
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits and the Struggle for the Constitution 3.87 avg rating — 107 ratings
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What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
by:
Bruce E. Baker
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 82. 
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
by:
Richard Grant
4.15 avg rating — 8,391 ratings 
86. 
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
by:
Bruce E. Baker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Denominational Schisms and the Coming of the American Civil War
by:
C.C. Goen
4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings 93. 
Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
by:
June Hall McCash
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 93. 
So the Heffners Left McComb (Civil Rights in Mississippi Series)
by:
Hodding Carter
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings 
96. 
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
by:
Robert P. Jones
4.42 avg rating — 2,560 ratings 99. 
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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