Read-alikes and related books

Books like Hold the Flag High

Readers who finished Hold the Flag High by Catherine Clinton and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by African American, Cultural Heritage, 19th Century, and People & Places.

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Top related books to Hold the Flag High

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Hold the Flag High.

Freedom Song The Story of Henry “Box” Brown

Sally M. Walker

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • 19th Century

Day of Tears

Julius Lester

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • 19th Century

Building a New Land African Americans in Colonial America

James Haskins

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • People & Places

Muhammad Ali A Champion Is Born

Gene Barretta

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • People & Places

Muhammad Ali The People’s Champion

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • People & Places

Don’t Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr.

Kenneth C. Davis

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • People & Places

African American Migrations in North America

Irene Harris

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

Ellen Levine

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#10

When Harriet Met Sojourner

Catherine Clinton

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

#11

A Man for All Seasons The Life of George Washington Carver

Stephen Krensky

Themes: Cultural Heritage • 19th Century • United States

#12

Sour Land

William H. Armstrong

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#13

An Avon True Romance: Josephine and the Soldier

Beverly Jenkins

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#14

The Drinking Gourd A Story of the Underground Railroad — F. N Monjo

F. N. Monjo

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#15

Forty-seven

Walter Mosley

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#16

Crow

Barbara Wright

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#17

I Have Heard of a Land

Joyce Carol Thomas

Themes: African American • 19th Century • People & Places

#18

RESPECT Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

Carole Boston Weatherford

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

#19

Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

#20

Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

Themes: African American • 19th Century • United States

#21

Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day

Graham Russell Hodges

Themes: African American • Cultural Heritage • United States

#22

Who was Jackie Robinson?

Gail Herman

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

#23

Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter, Written by Himself, Together with His Letters and Statements by His Friends A Vindication

Tom Horn

Themes: Cultural Heritage • 19th Century • United States

#24

Finding Providence The Story of Roger Williams

Avi

Themes: 19th Century • People & Places • United States

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Hold the Flag High by Catherine Clinton. Connected by African American, Cultural Heritage, 19th Century. Authors featured include Sally M. Walker, Julius Lester, James Haskins, Gene Barretta, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.