UF History Emeritus Professor David Chalmers, a noted historian of the Ku Klux Klan and Southern History, recently gave to SPOHP a truly remarkable collection of books from his personal library including original editions of Stetson Kennedy, Thomas Dixon, and Albion Tourgee.

The collection contains books on:
Notable books include “Southern Exposure” and “The Klan Unmasked,” by Stetson Kennedy, a fearless reporter who went undercover to expose Ku Klux Klan activities in the 1940s. Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, who wrote “Freakonomics” in 2005 (also in this collection!), dubbed Kennedy “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan.” Also look for books by John Dixon Jr., who wrote “The Clansmen: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan” in 1905, which later inspired the 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation.
The following is a listing of books in the collection. The books are grouped by subject and/or decade. To view the books in each section, just click on the title. Click the title again to close the section. The collection is located in the SPOHP office in Pugh Hall, and is available for anyone to come in and browse through!
Albion W. Tourgee, "A Fool's Errand By One Of The Fools". Ford, Howard & Hulbert, 1880.
_________________, "Murvale Eastman: Christian Socialist". Ford, Howard & Hulbert 1889.
George J. Baker, "Albion W. Tourgee: Pioneer in Social Criticism". American Literature, March 1947.
J. Michael Martinez, "Carpetbaggers, Cavalry and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction". Roman & Littlefield, 2007.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., "The One Woman". Doubleday, Page, 1903.
_________________, "The Klansman". Grosset & Dunlap, 1905.
_________________, "The Traitor". Doubleday Page, 1907.
_________________, "The Black Hood". Appleton, 1934.
Eric Foner, "Reconstruction". 1863-1877
_________________, "America's Unfinished Revolution", Harper, 1988
Allen Trelease, "White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction". Harper 1971.
Bradley Bond, "Political Culture in the Ninteenth Century South: Mississippi". 1830-1900. LSU, 1995.
Michael & Judy Ann Newton, "The Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia". Garland, 1991
William H. Fisher, "The Invisible Empire: A Bibliography of the Ku Klux Klan". Scarecrow, 1980.
David Chalmers, "Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan". Doubleday, 1965. Quadrangle, 1968. Duke, 1987
_________________, "Ku Klux Klan: Los Americanos Encapuchados 1865-1965". 1965.
_________________, "L'Amerique en cagoule: Cent Ans De Ku Klux Klan", 1968. True: Bonus Book Condensation. July, 1965.
William Pierce Randal, "The Ku Klux Klan: A Century of Infamy". Chilton, 1965.
Wyn Craig Wade, "The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America". Simon & Schuster, 1987.
__________, "Ku Klux Klan: The Strange Society of Blood and Death Exposed!" 1922
Arnold S. Rice, "The Ku Klux Klan in American Politics". Public Affairs Press, 1962
Charles C. Alexander, "The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest". Kentucky, 1965
Kenneth T. Jackson, "The Ku Klux Klan in the City 1915-1930". Oxford, 1967
Robert Alan Goldberg, "Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado". Ill, 1981
Leonard J. Moore, "Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928". UNC, 1991.
Richard K. Tucker, "The Dragon and the Cross: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Middle America". Archon, 1991
Shawn Lay, "War, Revolution, and the Ku Klux Klan: A Study of Intolerance in a Border City". Texas Western, 1985
__________, "Hooded Knights on the Niagra: The Ku Klux Klan in Buffalo, New York". NYU, 1995
Shawn Lay, ed. "The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s". Ill, 1992.
William D. Jenkins, "Steel Valley Klan: The Ku Klux Klan in Ohio's Mahoning Valley". Kent State, 1990.
Larry R. Gerlach, "Blazing Crosses in Zion: The Ku Klux Klan in Zion", Utah, 1982
Glenn Feldman, "Politics, Society and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949". Alabama, 1999.
Michael Newton, "The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida". Florida, 2001
Nancy MacLean, "Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan". Oxford, 1994
Kathleen M. Blee, "Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s". California, 1991
Roy McVeigh, "The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right Wing Movements and National Politics". Minnesota, 2009
Craig Fox, "Everyday Klanfolk: White Protestant Life and the KKK in 1920s Michigan". Michigan State, 2011
Thomas R. Pegram, "One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s". Dee, 2011
Kelly J. Baker, "Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930". Kansas, 2011
Lynn Dumenil, "Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s". Hill & Wang, 1995
Stanley Coben, "Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America". Oxford, 1991
David Burner, "The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition 1918-1932". Harvard, 1986
William Warren Rogers, et. al., "Alabama: The History of a Deep South State". Alabama, 1994
William Ivy Hair, "The Kingfish and his Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long". LSU, 1991
John M. Barry, "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America". Simon & Schuster, 1997
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family". Oxford, 1994
Nancy Cuthbert, "Norfolk and the K.K.K. in the Nineteen Twenties". M.A. Thesis, Old Dominion College, 1965.
Christopher Manning, "The Garvey Movement and the Ku Klux Klan of the Twenties: A Comparison of Nationalist Movements". University of Florida, 1993
Kevin Boyle, "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age". Holt, 2004
Kenneth Harrell, "The Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, 1920-1930". LSU, 1966
Clement C. Mosley, "Invisible Empire: A History of the Ku Klux Klan in Twentiety Century Georgia, 1915-1965". Georgia, 1968
Christopher Cocoltchos, "The Invisible Government and the Viable Community: The Ku Klux Klan in Orange County, California During the 1920s". 2 Parts. UCLA, 1979
Nancy Maclean, "Behind the Mask of Chivalry: Gender, Race and Class in the Making of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s in Georgia". 2 parts. Wisconsin, 1989
Edward P. Akin, "The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia: Social Change and Conflict, 1920-1930". UCLA, 1994
William Loren Katz, "The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan Impact on History". Open Hand Pub., Updated 1987
Allen Grimshaw, "A Study in Social Violence: Urban Race Riots in the United States". Pennsylvania, 1959
John Roy Carlson, "Under Cover". Dutton, 1943
________________, "The Plotters". Dutton, 1946
E. A. Piller, "Time Bomb". Arco, 1945
Stetson Kennedy, "Southern Exposure". Doubleday, 1946
Ralph Lord Roy, "Apostles of Discord". Beacon, 1953
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, "Freakonomics". Harper, 2009
Raymond Arsenault, "Freedom Riders: 1960 and the Struggle for Racial Justice". Oxford, 2006
David Halberstam, "The Children". Random House, 1998
Diane McWhorter, "Carry Me Home: Birmingham: The Climatic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution". S&S, 2001
John Dittmer, "Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi". Ill, 1994
Adam Nossiter, "Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers". Addison-Wesley, 1994
Reed Massengill, "Portrait of a Racist: The Man Who Killed Medgar Evers". St. Martins, 1993
Gary May, "The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo". Yale, 2005
William Bradford Huie, "3 Lives For Mississippi". Signet, 1968
Paul Hendrickson, "Sons of Mississippi". Knopf, 2003
Nicolaus Mills, "Like A Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964 - The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America". Dee, 1993
Florence Mars, "Witness in Philadelphia". LSU, 1977
Howard Ball, "Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights". Kansas, 2004
Michal Belknap, "Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South". Georgia, 1987
Kenneth O'Reilly, "Racial Matters: The FBIs Secret File on Black America". 1960-1972
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation". Knopf, 2006
__________, "The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement",David R. Davies, ed. Miss 2001
Taylor Branch, "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63". S&S, 1998; Pilar of Fire, 1963-65. 1998; At Canaan's Edge. 1965-68. 2006
David Cunningham, "There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence". California, 2004
Worth H. Weller, "Under The Hood: Unmasking the Modern Ku Klux Klan". DeWitt, 1998
Jerry Thompson, "My Life in the Klan". Rutledge Hill, 1982
Robert M. Reed, "Night of the Klan: A Reporter's Story". 2002
Bill Stanton, "Klanwatch: Bringing the Ku Klux Klan to Justice". Grove Weidenfield, 1991
Patsy Sims, "The Klan". Stein & Day, 1978
Melissa Fay Greene, "The Temple Bombing". Addison-Wesley, 1996
David Chalmers, "Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement". Roman & Littlefield, 2003
Elizabeth Wheaton, "Code Name Greenkill: The 1979 Greensboro Killings". Georgia, 1987
Charles W. Eagles, "Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama". North Carolina, 1993
William Bradford Huie, "Wolf Whistle". Signet, 1959
__________, "The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race". Douglas Rose ed. North Carolina, 1992
House Un-American Activities Committee, "Hearings", vols. 1-5. Proceedings against Robert M. Shelton, Robert Hudgins, George Franklin Dorsett, Marshall R. Kornegay, James R. Jones, Calvin, Craig. "Report & Separate & Dissenting views"
State of Alabama v. Bobby Frank Cherry Official Transcript. Closing Arguments, Jury Charge, Sentencing, 2002
William Loren Katz, "The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan Impact on History". Open Hand, 1987
Ben Haas, "KKK". Regency, 1963
Seth Cagin & Philp Dray, "We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi". Bantam, 1989
Howard Ball, "Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen". Kansas, 2006
Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., "My Undercover Years With the Ku Klux Klan". Bantam, 1976
Peter Applebome, "Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture". Harcourt, 1997
__________, "Gold Cost Politics in the Twentieth Century", Peter Carageorge ed., Historica Pensacola PReservation Board, 1973
__________, The Human Tradition in the New South", James C. Klotter ed., Roman & LIttlefield, 2005
Howell Raines, "My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South". Penguin, 1983
Raymond A. Mohl, "South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960". Florida. 2004
Robert Wayne Hartley, "A Long Hot Summer: The St. Augustine racial discorders of 1964". MA Thesis, Stetson University, 1972
ADL, Hate Groups in America. 1988
__________, "Danger Extremism: The Major Vehicles and Voices of America's Far-Right Fringe". 1996
Wilmot Robertson, "The Dispossed Majority". Howard Allen, 1972
Morris Dees, "A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees". Scribner, 1991
__________, "Hate On Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi". Villard, 1993
__________, Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat". HarperColins, 1996
James Coates, "Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right". Hill and Wang, 1987
Kenneth S. Stern, "A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate". S&S, 1996
Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, "The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground". Macmillan, 1989
James Ridgeway, "Blood In The Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture". Thunder's Mouth, 1990
J. Harry Jones, Jr., "The Minutement". Doubleday, 1968
Daniel Levitas, "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right".
Martin A. Lee, "The Beast Reawakens". Routledge, 1997
Mattias Gardell, "Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism". Duke, 2003
James A. Aho, "The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism". Washington, 1990
George Michael, "The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right". Kansas, 2006
David Cunningham, "There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence". California, 2004
Jon Ronson, "Them: Adventures with Extremists". S&S, 2002
Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie Shanks-Meile, "White Power, White Pride!: The White Separatist Movement in the United States". Twayne, 1997
Thomas Martinez with John Guinther, "The Brotherhood of Murder: Inside story of The Order". Pocket Books, 1988
John A. Stormer, "None Dare Call it Treason". Liberty Bell, 1964
John Allen with Larry Abraham, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy". Concord, 1971
Bill Hughes, "The Enemy Unmasked". Truth Triumphant, 2006
Leonard Zesking, "Blood and Politics". Farrar Straus, 2009
Michael Barkun, "Religion and the Racist Right". North Carolina, 1994
Robert Penn Warren, "Night Rider". Berkley, 1939
Paul E. Walsh, "KKK". Avon, 1956
William E. Wilson, "Crescent City". Pyramid, 1957
Paul Kavanagh,"The Triumph of Evil". Pocket Book, 1971
Stephen Greenleaf, "Southern Cross". Bantam, 1993
Karen Hess, "Witness". Scholastic, 2005
James Patterson, "Alex Cross's Trial". Little Brown, 2009
ACLU Records v. 226-32, 1922-23
The National Kourier, v. 4-5, 1925
The Fiery Cross, 1923-25
32 VHS Tapes: David Duke, Morris Dees, Bill Moyers, Mike Wallace, Connie Chung, David Chalmers, FBI & etc.
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