Believing that one can know the “soul” of a race by knowing the souls of individuals, W. The Souls of Black Folk, New York, New York: Penguin Classics, 2021 When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America–and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America. Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today.ĭuBois, W.E.B. 2021 Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on a tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about their past and those that ar not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. In the span of single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Baptist reveals in The Half has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and moernization of the United States. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success.

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. Nine distinguished historians debunk the myth of the Lost Cause in an effort to replace falsity with truth.īaptist, Edward E. The Myth of the Lost Cause of and Civil War History. New York, New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 In this book, three New England journalists demythologize the region of America known for tolerance and liberation, revealing a place where thousands of people were held in bondage and slavery was both an economic dynamo and a necessary way of life. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. Through this dialogue, we see how historians explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public.įarrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jennifer Frank.

Offers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederate memory and memorialization. Confederate Statues and Memorialization, Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia, 2019. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Catherine Clinton.

No Common Ground by Karen L. Cox