Edward L. Ayers
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1972) by Eugene Genovese
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Robert C. Kenzer Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (1970) by Eric Foner and Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (1974) by William L. Barney
David W. Blight Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by Frederick Douglass
Gary W. Gallagher The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976) by David M. Potter
Charles B. Dew The Mind of the South (1941) by W.J. Cash
Clarence E. Walker The Disruption of American Democracy (1948) by Roy Franklin Nichols
Elizabeth Varon Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (2001) by Charles B. Dew
Christy S. Coleman Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs
Gregg D. Kimball The Road to Disunion, Volumes I and II (1990 and 2007) by William W. Freehling
Jean H. Baker In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2003) by Dr. Edward Ayers
Walter Johnson Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northup, His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad (1996) by John P. Parker, The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones