Introduction to Documentary Editing
Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue, A Guide to Documentary Editing, 3rd. ed. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008)–Available for free online at the link
Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (Times Books, 2004) ISBN 978-0805069228
Old South
Bruce Baker, What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2009) ISBN 9780813928777
Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2016) ISBN 9780465049660
Richard Follett et al., Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016) ISBN 9781421419404
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Viking, 2016) ISBN 9780670785971