Books like Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine

#1

Clearing the Thickets A History of Antebellum Alabama

Herbert James Lewis

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#2

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#3

Jefferson’s Poplar Forest Unearthing a Virginia Plantation

Barbara J. Heath

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#4

Seat of Empire The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas

Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#5

Astor The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

Anderson Cooper

Themes: Rich & Famous • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#6

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#7

Bluffing Texas Style The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins

Michael Vinson

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Antiques & Collectibles • 19th Century

#8

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest

Steven P. Brown

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#9

What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

Cecelia Tichi

Themes: Rich & Famous • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#10

The Charleston Freedman’s Cottage An Architectural Tradition

Lissa Felzer

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#11

A Journal of Travel Into the Arkansa Territory, During the Year 1819 With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines

Thomas Nuttall

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#12

Westward We Came A Norwegian Immigrant’s Story, 1866-1898

Harold Berg Kildahl

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#13

Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War

Nicholas Lemann

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#14

Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court

William S. Belko

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#15

The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia

Nat Turner

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#16

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi Volume II, Part I — Goodspeed’s

Goodspeed's

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#17

Lost Plantation The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Marc R. Matrana

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#18

Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier

Bob Drury

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#19

Redemption from Tyranny Herman Husband’s American Revolution

Bruce E. Stewart

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#20

The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill Legendary African American Desperado

Larry L. Massey

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#21

Reconstruction A Concise History

Allen C. Guelzo

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#22

Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#23

Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850

Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#24

Naming Arkansas Curious Place Names from Greasy Corner to Sock City

Daniel Boice

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)