I’m teaching history of the US South (colonial to present) this spring for the first time in years - yay! Looking for recs for books (any topic) that work well to discuss across multiple weeks/time periods - eg, Berlin’s Generations of Slavery. 🗃️
Forget the Alamo might be too specific in scope but it touches on Texas' history with slavery repeatedly
I loved Keri Leigh Merritt's Masterless Men
Bryant Simon's Hamlet Fire is great for race, gender, labor and policy between the 1930s and 1990s. It's a very powerful story that few students (and others) are aware of. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a m...
Tiya Miles, _All That She Carried_! It spans 18thc.-20thc. or even 21stc. and is AMAZING.
Jack Temple Kirby's Rural Worlds Lost is a great text on the mid-20C and the New Deal.
Absolutely love teaching Rashauna Johnson's Slavery's Metropolis, which works well in the Revolutionary-era period writ large.
_The Taste of Country Cooking_ by Edna Lewis, and the _Potlikker Papers_ by John T. Edge. Edge probably fits your criteria better, but Lewis has better recipes. :)
I know this isn't what you're asking for, but in my southern history class, I have students read 1 chapter from Clinton's The Plantation Mistress & 1 from Glymph's Out of the Plantation Household, and it works really well. Great way to teach historiography.
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