New Books – January 2026

The Colonial Towns of Piedmont North Carolina

By Christopher E. Hendricks

Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South

By Valerie Cassel Oliver

Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Money in the Jim Crow South

By Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews

Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: The Politics of Slaves and Rebels in Early America and the West Indies, 1688-1748

By Justin Pope

Freedom and the Freedmen's Bureau in West Virginia

By John E. Stealey, III

A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks

By Tim Todd

Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston: An Oral History

By Sheree Scarborough

Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca: Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives

Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

By Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham

I'll Come to You: A Novel

By Rebecca Kauffman

Space Chasers

By Leland Melvin

While Librarians Wept: A Library System Dies, 1997-2017

By Robert Leo Heilman