“Freedom, Equality, and Race”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson
This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March
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Intellectual Identity
W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History
In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,
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Solidarity and Excellence: W.E.B. Du Bois and William Leo Hansberry
In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, first published in 1946, he writes: “I have read Eduard
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James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du
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