Covering America: The Textile Heritage of 19th-Century Quilts
- Baigent, Michael, and Richard Leigh. The Temple and the Lodge: The Strange and Fascinating History of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons. New York: Arcade, 2020.
- Collins, Gail. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. New York: William Morrow, 2007.
- Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Mineola: Dover, 2001.
- Jones, Sharon Foster. The Atlanta Exposition. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
- Kiracofe, Roderick. The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950. New York: Potter Style, 2004.
- Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2011.
- Postrel, Virginia. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World. New York: Basic Books, 2021.
- Rutkow, Ira M. Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. New York: Random House, 2005.
- St. Clair, Kassia. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History. New York: Liverlight, 2021.
- Ware, Susan. American Women: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
"This Period of Grave Crisis": North Carolinians Respond to Brown, 1954-1974
- Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
- Cecelski, David S. Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1994.
- Douglas, Davison M. Reading, Writing, & Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
- Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Books, 2020.
- Geary, Cindy Waszak, and LaHoma Smith Romocki. Going to School in Black and White: A Duel Memoir of Desegregation. Durham: Torchflame Books, 2017.
- Irons, Peter. Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
- Meacham, Jon. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. New York: Random House, 2020.
- Smith, Clint. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
- Walker, Vanessa Siddle. Their Highest Potential: An African American Community in the Segregated South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Walker, Vanessa Siddle. The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools. New York: The New Press, 2020.