David Chalmers Library of Southern History

Dr. David Chalmers




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.

Chalmers Library of Southern History


The collection contains books on:

  • the Ku Klux Klan
  • the House Committee on Un-American Activities
  • the Civil Rights Movement
  • Southern history
  • Social movements, economics, and terrorism



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!



Reconstruction Era Klan

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.

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Klan Histories

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.

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The 1920s

__________, "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

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Dissertations UMI

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

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The 1940s-1950s

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

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The 1960s: Southern Struggle

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

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Extremism

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

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Klan Fiction

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

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Ku Klux Klan / Hate Group Tapes and Videos

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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