Search Results for: W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Academic Folk

February 21, 2018February 24, 2018 Roopika Risam #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In higher education debates, W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps

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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

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W.E.B. Du Bois And World Revolution: An Interview With Bill V. Mullen

October 18, 2016October 16, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere Afro-Asia, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Communism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This month I interviewed Bill V. Mullen, Professor of American Studies at Purdue University, about his recent book, Un-American: W.

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Bahá’í Faith

October 16, 2016October 15, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount religion, W.E.B. Du Bois

Recently the AAIHS held a workshop at the University of Pennsylvania where the contributors to its forthcoming anthology, New Perspectives

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When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, black politics, Politics, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

Slaves freed themselves.  With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of

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