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It's time to start new books in 2007 and a cadre of good ones have come out in the last few months from Louisiana State University Press and University of South Carolina Press. Hopefully in the titles related to the antebellum through Reconstruction eras you will find something to peak your interest.
An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia by Daniel Kilbride
The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834–1864 by Benjamin Minor New Introduction by Jonathan Daniel Wells
Crafting the Overseer's Image by William E. Wiethoff
Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606–1860 by Avery Odelle Craven
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer by Mary Gorton McBride
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865 by Richard R. Duncan
River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain by Thomas Ruys Smith
Inside the Confederate Nation, Edited by Lesley J. Gordon and John C Inscoe
Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson by Mark R. Cheathem
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisianas Cane World, 1820–1860 by Richard Follett
Some of these titles look VERY interesting, in particular the book on Randall Gibson and Craven's classic book on soil exhaustion, now reprinted.
An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia by Daniel Kilbride
The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834–1864 by Benjamin Minor New Introduction by Jonathan Daniel Wells
Crafting the Overseer's Image by William E. Wiethoff
Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606–1860 by Avery Odelle Craven
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer by Mary Gorton McBride
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865 by Richard R. Duncan
River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain by Thomas Ruys Smith
Inside the Confederate Nation, Edited by Lesley J. Gordon and John C Inscoe
Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson by Mark R. Cheathem
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisianas Cane World, 1820–1860 by Richard Follett
Some of these titles look VERY interesting, in particular the book on Randall Gibson and Craven's classic book on soil exhaustion, now reprinted.