W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (LOA #350)
An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Playe in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–188
$82.90
- Hardcover
1097 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2022
Summary
A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction—and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on the nation’s post-Civil War e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537031 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1598537032 |
| Author: | W.E.B. Du Bois, Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1097 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 130mm |
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“The 2021 release of the Library of America’s edition of “Black Reconstruction,” edited by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates Jr., confirms the book’s place in the pantheon of great works of enduring influence.” —Washington Post
About The Author
W.E.B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. After graduation from Fisk University, he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, studied in Berlin, and became pioneering historian and sociologist and the founding editor of The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP. His major works include The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction, and The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade. He died in Ghana in 1963 at the age of ninety-five.
Eric Foner is the author of many award-winning books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, including The Fiery Trial- Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard. He is the author of numerous books, including Stony the Road- Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, and has produced, written, and hosted an array of documentary films for public television, including Finding Your Roots and The African Americans- Many Rivers to Cross.
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