Books on Topic: 'Southern History'

Sam Watkins' 'Company Aytch' provides a firsthand account of the Civil War through the eyes of a Confederate soldier. He chronicles his experiences as...

This book compiles two diaries kept by young women, Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, during the final months of the Civil War in Sout...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett's "Mob Rule in New Orleans" documents a horrific week of mob violence against Black residents in early 20th-century New Orleans....

Published in the early 20th century, 'Jim Crow Car' by Reverend John Clay Coleman offers a firsthand account of the oppressive Jim Crow era in the Ame...

This volume, part of a larger collection of slave narratives, offers a poignant glimpse into the lives of enslaved people in Mississippi. Compiled thr...