The First Black Archaeologist

by John W. I. Lee

2022 · Oxford University Press

This is the very first book-length biography of John Wesley Gilbert, a man famous as "the first black archaeologist." The book uses previously unstudied sources to reveal the triumphs and challenges of an overlooked pioneer in American archaeology.

Destroying the Republic

by John J. Chodes

2005 · Algora Publishing

A great Confederate defender of "States rights" paradoxically led the program after the War to impose a national education program that first finished off the South and later became a model for social engineering in the North and around the world.

The Negro and the White Man

by Wesley John Gaines

1897

"In describing the unwholesome properties of slavery for both slave and master, Gaines, who was a slave himself, celebrates the activities of prominent abolitionists in securing freedom for African Americans. He devotes an entire chapter to John Brown's raid on the U.S. Army Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Gaines also describes the contributions of African American soldiers to the cause of freedom"--Bryan Sinche, https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/gaines/summary.html