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The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures Series

20 primary works • 20 total works
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures were established by friends and colleagues of Nathan I. Huggins, the distinguished historian and first occupant of the W.E.B. Du Bois Professorship at Harvard University. Professor Huggins served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and as Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Af…
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century
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4.07 · 58 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2001 · 10 editions
"The problem of the twentieth century is the probl…

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    The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
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    4.08     · 103 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
    Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisono…

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    No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 5 editions
    In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twe…

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    The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution
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    3.92     · 116 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
    As the United States gained independence, a full f…

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    Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery
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    3.80     · 25 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2003 · 7 editions
    In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an…

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    How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow
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    4.11     · 47 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
    In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movem…

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    The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
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    3.74     · 38 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2009 · 5 editions
    Pulitzer Prize–winner Steven Hahn’s provocative ne…

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    Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
    As the United States championed principles of free…

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    Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War
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    3.75     · 32 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 4 editions
    The admired American painter Winslow Homer rose to…

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    Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
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    4.40     · 45 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Wes…

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    Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory
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    3.54     · 26 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the E…

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    Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America
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    3.33     · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 6 editions
    Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that…

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    Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
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    3.82     · 34 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2013 · 3 editions
    Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fa…

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    The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
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    3.92     · 100 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    Perhaps no event in American history arouses more …

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    Redeeming the Great Emancipator
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    4.04     · 47 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2016 · 9 editions
    The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln project…

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    Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the …

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    Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
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    3.61     · 46 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2018 · 2 editions
    The three most important Supreme Court Justices be…

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    No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
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    3.91     · 181 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 2018 · 10 editions
    Americans revere the Constitution even as they arg…

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    The Black Kingdom of the Nile
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    For centuries, Egyptian civilization has been at t…

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    Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump
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    3.40     · 20 Ratings · 5 Reviews · 5 editions
    It's not the economy, stupid: How liberal politici…

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