The best books on Martin Luther King Jr. include King: A Life, Bearing the Cross, Parting the Waters, Why We Can’t Wait, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Martin’s Big Words.
The best books on Malcolm X include The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, The Dead Are Arising, Malcolm X Speaks, The Sword and the Shield and X: A Novel.
The best books on Jim Crow include The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns, Slavery by Another Name, The New Jim Crow, Stony the Road and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
The best books on Reconstruction include Reconstruction by Eric Foner, The Second Founding, Black Reconstruction in America, Stamped from the Beginning, The Day Freedom Died and Forever Free.
The best books on the American Civil War include Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War: A Narrative, This Republic of Suffering, Killer Angels, Grant by Ron Chernow and The Red Badge of Courage.
The best books on the American Revolution include 1776, The Glorious Cause, Washington’s Crossing, The British Are Coming, American Scripture and Johnny Tremain.
The best books on the Founding Fathers include Founding Brothers, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, John Adams by David McCullough, Washington: A Life, The Hemingses of Monticello and Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson.
The best books on Abraham Lincoln include Team of Rivals, Lincoln by David Herbert Donald, A. Lincoln, The Fiery Trial, Manhunt and Lincoln in the Bardo.
The best books on women’s suffrage include The Woman’s Hour, Vanguard, Century of Struggle, Failure Is Impossible, Jailed for Freedom and Votes for Women.
The best books on Watergate include All the President’s Men, The Final Days, Watergate: A New History, The Wars of Watergate, Blind Ambition and Nixonland.