African American History Reading List
- The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 by David A. Chang
- Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
- American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow by Jerrold M. Packard
- Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
- Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement by Kevin M. Kruse (Editor), Stephen Tuck (Editor)
- Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Herb Boyd
- Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans by Albert J. Raboteau
- Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter
- African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness by Milton C. Sernett
- Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 1: 1619-1877 by Thomas C. Holt and Elsa Barkley Brown
- Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 2: 1865-1990s by Thomas C. Holt and Elsa Barkley Brown
- African American Urban History since World War II by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter
- Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
- The African American Experience during World War II by Neil A. Wynn
- The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke (Editor)
- The Harlem Renaissance: A Brief History With Documents by Jeffrey B. Ferguson
- Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale
- Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low by C. Riley Snorton
- Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates
- The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s by Lerone Bennett
- The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture–An Illustrated Reference by Mark T. Mattson and Molefi K. Asante
- Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams and Julian Bond
- Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift by Jacqueline M. Moore
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A Brief History with Documents by David Howard-Pitney
- A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade by Harvard Sitkoff
- King: A Biography by David Levering Lewis
- Martin Luther King Jr. (3 volumes) by Taylor Branch
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely
- Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms by James E. Westheider
- The Black West: A Documentary and Pictoral History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Katz
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 by Koritha Mitchell
- Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era by Edward Countryman
- Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African-American Railroad Attendant by David Perata
- Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970 by Luther Adams
- Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
- Loyalty in Time of Trial: The African American Experience During World War I by Nina Mjagkij
- Soul Patrol by Ed Emanuel
- Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans to 1880 by Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor)
- Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class by Robin Kelley
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward
- Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream by Christina M. Greer
- Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit by Reuel R. Rogers
- Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone
- The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya
- Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing by Deirdre Mullane (Editor)
- Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing by Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
- African-American Art by Sharon F. Patton
- Women’s Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: by Kathryn Kish Sklar
- Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
- The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South by Catherine Clinton
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
- The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness by Veronica T. Watson
- Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
- A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson
- Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City by Craig D. Townsend
- Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 by Catherine W. Bishir
- Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 by Gerald Horne
- L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present by Josh Sides
- African Americans in Los Angeles by Karin L. Stanford – California State University Northridge Institute for Arts and Media
- The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre by Harvey Young
- Black Unionism in the Industrial South by Ernest Obadele-Starks
- Other Reading Lists and Bibliographies
- Readings in African American History – Rutgers University
- Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade – Rutgers University
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES SUGGESTED READING
- The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies – by Betty Wood
- American Slavery, American Freedom. by Edmund Morgan
- The Slave Ship. by Marcus Rediker
- Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
- Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
- Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa. by Stephanie Smallwood
- Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 by Douglas R. Egerton
- Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 by Richard Newman and Patrick Rael
- Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire by Abigail L. Swingen
- African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Herbert S. Klein and Ben Vinson
- Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 by Gregory E. O’Malley
- Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks
- The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay
- White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
- European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 by Richard B. Allen
- The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts by William Still and Ian Finseth
- New Studies in the History of American Slavery by Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M. H. Camp
- Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by John Thornton
- Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
- Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 by Anthony S. Parent Jr.
- Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff
- Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776 by Betty Wood
- Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America by Peter H. Wood
- Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
- In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger
- Bringers of War: The Portugese in Africa during the Age of Gunpowder & Sail from the 15th to 18th Century by John Laband
- The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas
- Transformations in Slavery by Paul Lovejoy
- The Diligent: Worlds Of The Slave Trade by Robert Harms
- Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 by Richard S. Dunn
- Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism By Edward E. Baptist
- Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia by Daina Berry
- Traces Of A Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women by Jaqueline Jones Royster
- Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 By James Oakes
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner
- Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World By David Brion Davis
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II By Douglas A. Blackmon
- Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America By Evan Carton
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 By Alan Taylor
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
- Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers By James F. Simon
- Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War By Stanley Harrold
- Women’s Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: by Kathryn Kish Sklar
- The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom By Marcus Rediker
- Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 By David J. Libby
- Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
- The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A Comprehensive History by Wilbur H. Siebert
- Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification by David Waldstreicher
- The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt
- The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina by Manisha Sinha
- Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.
- Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
- The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative by Mary Prince
- An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 by Randolph B. Campbell
- Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 by Max Grivno
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
- Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870 by Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau
- African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness by Milton C. Sernett
- The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya
- Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans by Albert J. Raboteau
- Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton C. Sernett
- Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion by Larry Murphy
- The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856 by William J. Cooper
- Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Michael Guasco
- River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson
- Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
- Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 by William A. Pettigrew
- Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 by Jonathan H. Earle
- Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks
- A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic by Simon P. Newman
- Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers by Joseph T. Glatthaar
- Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau
- The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Dudley Taylor Cornish
- A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs
- A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
- Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
- The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union by James M. McPherson
- Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 by William A. Dobak
- Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era by John David Smith
- In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger
- Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700 by Susan Dwyer Amussen
- African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Herbert S. Klein and Ben Vinson
- The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States by Laird Bergad
- Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Jeanne Fields
- More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas by David Barry Gaspar (Editor), Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
- Freedom’s Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War by Ira Berlin, Joseph Patrick Reidy and Leslie S. Rowland
OTHER READING LISTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES