- Ancestral return, [photography by Daniel Gonzalez]
- The Civil War, Florentine Films production ; produced in association with WETA-TV ; a film by Ken Burns ; executive producer, Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns, Disc 5, Episodes 8 and 9
- A southern odyssey, travelers in the antebellum North, John Hope Franklin
- Enjoy the same liberty, Black Americans and the revolutionary era, Edward Countryman
- African-Americans in the colonies, by Jean Kinney Williams ; content adviser, Stephanie Davenport ; reading adviser, Linda D. Labbo
- Blacks in colonial America, by Oscar Reiss
- Africans in America, America's journey through slavery, a production of WGBH Boston ; executive producer, Orlando Bagwell; writer, Steve Fayer
- They who would be free, Blacks' search for freedom, 1830-1861, Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease
- Solomon Northup's kindred, the kidnapping of free citizens before the Civil War, David Fiske
- The white man's burden, historical origins of racism in the United States, Winthrop D. Jordan
- The Civil War, Florentine Films production ; produced in association with WETA-TV ; a film by Ken Burns ; executive producer, Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns, Disc 4, Episodes 6 and 7
- The roots of African-American identity, memory and history in free antebellum communities, Elizabeth Rauh Bethel
- The classic slave narratives, edited and with an updated introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Strange new land, Africans in Colonial America, Peter H. Wood
- Slavery and freedom, Willie Lee Rose ; edited by William W. Freehling
- The Black man in America, 1791-1861, Florence Jackson ; illustrated with photos. and contemporary drawings
- Free man of color, the autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges, edited with an introduction by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr
- Servants of Allah, African Muslims enslaved in the Americas, Sylviane A. Diouf
- The Civil War, Florentine Films production ; produced in association with WETA-TV ; a film by Ken Burns ; executive producer, Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns, Disc 2, Episodes 2 and 3
- Abraham Lincoln and white America, Brian R. Dirck
- Brotherly love, produced by PBS for WGBH Boston ; produced by Jacques Jones ; writer, Steve Fayer
- Underground Railroad, produced by Triage, Inc. for the History Channel ; producer, Susan Michaels
- Slaves without masters; the free Negro in the antebellum South
- Standing in their own light, African American patriots in the American revolution, Judith L. Van Buskirk
- Black dispatches, black American contributions to Union intelligence during the Civil War, by P.K. Rose
- Africans in America, America's journey through slavery, a production of WGBH Boston ; executive producer, Orlando Bagwell; writer, Steve Fayer, Disc two
- The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the Colored People of the United States ;, and, Official report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, Martin R. Delany ; with an introduction by Toyin Falola
- "We'll stand by the Union", Robert Gould Shaw and the Black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Peter Burchard
- American slavery, James Miller, book editor
- Days of sorrow, years of glory, 1831-1850, from the Nat Turner revolt to the fugitive slave law, Timothy J. Paulson
- Lincoln and black freedom, a study in presidential leadership, by LaWanda Cox
- Climbing up to glory, a short history of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Wilbert L. Jenkins
- Remembering slavery, African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation, published ... in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution
- Remembering slavery, African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
- The Civil War, Florentine Films production ; produced in association with WETA-TV ; a film by Ken Burns ; executive producer, Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns, Disc 3, Episodes 4 and 5
- Race and revolution, Gary B. Nash
- From Africa to America, African American history from the Colonial era to the early Republic,1526-1790, by William D. Piersen
- Slavery and the making of America, James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton
- Bullwhip days, the slaves remember, edited and with an introduction by James Mellon
- The counter-revolution of 1776, slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America, Gerald Horne
- Root & branch, African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863, Graham Russell Hodges
- The Underground Railroad, produced by Triage, Inc for the History Channel
- Root & branch, African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863, Graham Russell Hodges
- The free Black in urban America, 1800-1850, the shadow of the dream, Leonard P. Curry
- In freedom's footsteps, from the African background to the Civil War
- Amongst my best men, African-Americans and the War of 1812, Gerard T. Altoff with an introduction by: Joseph P. Reidy ; maps and illustrations by Robyn Opthoff Lilek
- White over black, American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812, Winthrop D. Jordan
- Unchained memories, readings from the slave narratives, an HBO Documentary Film in association with the Library of Congress ; producers, Jacqueline Glover, Thomas Lennon ; writer, Mark Jonathan Harris ; directors, Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
- Paying freedom's price, a history of African Americans in the Civil War, Paul D. Escott
- American slavery, 1619-1877, by Peter Kolchin ; consulting editor, Eric Foner