Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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W.E.B. Du Bois
The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise
After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some
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“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction
How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of
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W.E.B. Du Bois And World Revolution: An Interview With Bill V. Mullen
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
Recently the AAIHS held a workshop at the University of Pennsylvania where the contributors to its forthcoming anthology, New Perspectives
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