Here's the list I posted on the other thread:

Dollar Cotton by John Faulkner  (brother of William)

Men Working by John Faulkner

Cot­ton and Race in the ­Mak­ing of Amer­i­ca: The Hu­man ­Cost­s of Eco­nomic Pow­er by Eugene Dat­tel

Down On Parchman Farm by William Banks Taylor

Biographies and or autobiographies of people like Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, U. S. Grant, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose

And for comic relief: "Earth in the Balance" by Al Gore