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The Strange Career of Jim Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,194 ratings — published 1955
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 235 ratings — published 1951
The Mind of the South (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 642 ratings — published 1941
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,170 ratings — published 1996
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,997 ratings — published 1974
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 255 ratings — published 1998
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,012 ratings — published 1990
The Burden of Southern History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 280 ratings — published 1960
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,549 ratings — published 2013
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 135 ratings — published 1982
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,742 ratings — published 2001
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,020 ratings — published 2005
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture) (Gender & American Culture)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 823 ratings — published 1996
To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 665 ratings — published 1997
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 259 ratings — published 2006
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,024 ratings — published 1999
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 463 ratings — published 2003
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 370 ratings — published 1998
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,984,583 ratings — published 2009
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,523 ratings — published 1998
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 950 ratings — published 2003
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,424 ratings — published 1995
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,719 ratings — published 2022
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,150 ratings — published 2019
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,790 ratings — published 2016
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 286 ratings — published 2008
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,288 ratings — published 2014
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 384 ratings — published 2004
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,073 ratings — published 2014
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,823 ratings — published 2010
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 259 ratings — published 1997
The New Mind of the South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 313 ratings — published 2013
Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 911 ratings — published 1913
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,307 ratings — published 2008
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 551 ratings — published 2010
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 467 ratings — published 1988
The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 234 ratings — published 2001
Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 253 ratings — published 2005
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 354 ratings — published 1995
The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 412 ratings — published 1984
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,385 ratings — published 2001
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,446 ratings — published 1985
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,321 ratings — published 1990
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 53,322 ratings — published 2024
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,068 ratings — published 2019
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 220 ratings — published 2009
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,093 ratings — published 1996
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,393 ratings — published 2018
The Blood of Emmett Till (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,876 ratings — published 2017
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as southern-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 2009
“Robert E. Lee is America's great tragic hero, in the classical use of the term, doomed by a fatal flaw in one of his cardinal virtues, loyalty. He was a marvelously gifted soldier and an ardently devoted patriot, yet he defended the most unacceptable of American causes, secession and slavery, and he suffered the most un-American of experiences, defeat.”
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“When the crop that brought wealth under the banner of Christianity is found to destroy human lungs but trees older than Jesus breathe, it makes me think the meek shall inherit the earth.”
― South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
― South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
