These Truths
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800 by Arna Bontemps (1936)
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)
Complete Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman, ed. Justin Kaplan (1982)
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2018)
Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America by Jonathan Darman (2015)
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray (2002)
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (1903)
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (2006)
Reconstruction, America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1988)
The Enlightenment (Volume II): The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay (1969)
From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World by Eugene Genovese (1979)
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene Genovese (1976)