What to Read After Race and Reunion
Readers who loved Race and Reunion by David W. Blight keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Race and Reunion is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Race and Reunion
Reconstruction
This Republic of Suffering
Soul by Soul
Many Thousands Gone
American slavery, American freedom
A Nation Under Our Feet
1861
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Mothers of Invention
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
The Impending Crisis
The strange career of Jim Crow
For Cause and Comrades
Been in the Storm So Long
Midnight Rising
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender and Jim Crow
Trouble in Mind
What This Cruel War Was Over
The Negro's Civil War
Origins of the new South, 1877-1913
American Slavery, 1619-1877
Cold War Civil Rights