Black History

The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War

By Stephen V. Ash

The Soiling of Old Glory

By Louis P. Masur

April 4, 1968

By Michael Eric Dyson

On the Road to Freedom

By Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Prince

By Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance

By Dr. Gary D. Wintz

I’ve Got a Home in Glory Road

By Karolyn Smardz Frost

The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown

Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By Raymond Arsenault

Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings: 1619 to the Present

By Nell Irvin Painter

The Black West

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