Humanities Research Librarian John Glover compiled this list of books of interest.

Annette Gordon-Reed
On Juneteenth
2021

Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American family
2008

Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
2021

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
2021

Kyle T. Mays
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
2021

Yelena Bailey
How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America
2020

Joseph P. Reidy
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
2019

Julian Maxwell Hayter
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
2017

John D. Márquez
Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
2014

Lawrence Patrick Jackson
My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
2012

Jacqueline Jones
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
2010

Mitchell A. Kachun
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915
2003