Black Perspectves, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), asked its editors and bloggers to come up with a list of the best books on Black history. Here are the books from the list that cover the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras:
- Ana Lucia Araujo, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury)
- Erica Ball, Terri L. Snyder, and Tatiana Seijas, eds., As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas (Cambridge University Press)
- Alice Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books)
- Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross, A Black Women’s History of the United States (Beacon Press)
- Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Harvard University Press
- Le’Trice D. Donaldson, Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920 (Southern Illinois University Press)
- Thavolia Glymph, The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (University of North Carolina Press)
- Libra R. Hilde, Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities Over the Long Nineteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press)
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