Southern U.S. History
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

The Prince of Tides

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Furious Hours

Devil in the Grove

The Deepest South of All

The Gulf

The Last Slave Ship

The Barn

Dispatches From Pluto

Ava's Man

The Potlikker Papers

Praying for Sheetrock

Bubble in the Sun

The Last Madam

The Great River

Overground Railroad

A Childhood

The Devil Is Here in These Hills
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A Short History of Reconstruction [updated Edition]

Mothers of Invention

Apostles of Disunion

Everyday Life in Early America

Hotel Scarface

Freedom’s Dominion (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Dixie's Daughters

Tales From the Haunted South

Blessings and Disasters

Cult of Glory

The Book of the Dead

Land Rich, Cash Poor

Swamp Kings

S Is for Southern

The Last Kilo

Mississippi in Africa

Mile Marker Zero

Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina

House of Smoke

This Fierce People

Nashville

Cades Cove

Neptune's Honor

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields

The Secret Eye

Menendez

Rituals of Resistance

Carolina in Crisis

The Battle for North Carolina's Coast

Burying the Dead But Not the Past

Ghosts and Legends of Charleston, South Carolina

A High Low Tide

Bottom Shelf

After Coal

Native Americans in Florida

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

The Green Book of South Carolina

The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina

Reconstructing the Native South

Southern Writers in the Modern World

Moonshine Memories

New Orleans