African American History Resources

@ Pequot Library

Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.

Biography arranged by subject’s last name.

Civil War [arranged from most recent to earliest]:

Uncommon Valor:  a Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War.     Claxton, Melvin, 2006.    973.7415 CLAXTON

Like Men of War:  Black Troops in the Civil War.  Trudeau, Noah Andre, 1998.    973.7 TRUDEAU

On the Altar of Freedom:  a Black Soldier’s Civil War Letters from the Front.   Gooding, James Henry, 1991.     973 GOODING

Half Slave and Half Free:  the Roots of the Civil War.  Levine, Bruce C.,  1991.     973.711 LEVINE

Forged in Battle:  the Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. Glatthaar, Joseph T.,  1990.     973.741 GLATTHAAR

Black Writers and the American Civil War.  Long, Richard A., ed., 1988. 973.7 BLACK

Blue-eyed Child of Fortune:  the Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.   Shaw, Robert Gould, 1982.    973.7 SHAW

New Masters:  Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction.   Powell, Lawrence N., 1980.    338.1 POWELL