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| 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 |