The Road to Civil War

Grant by Ron Chernow

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant

Mutiny on the Amistad The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones

The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Oddysey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Rediker

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Life & Times of Frederick Douglass, and My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The Lives of Frederick Douglass by Robert S. Levine

America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union by Fergus M. Bordewich

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D. Ginzberg

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition by Gerda Lerner

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement by Sally G. McMillen

The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861 by William W. Freehling

Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War by Rachel A. Shelden

The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s by Erc H. Walther

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave by David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown and Rachel Seligman

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame

Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War by Maury Klein