“John Brown taught us that the cheapest price to pay for liberty is its cost today.” –W.E.B. Du Bois In his 1928 epic poem John Brown’s Body, Stephen Vincent Benét named the problem of John Brown in America’s historical memory: The law’s our hardstick, and it measures well, Or well enough when there are yards […]
David Blight
David W. Blight, a professor of American history at Yale University, is the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in AmericanMemory and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War.
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The Enduring Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis. Henry Holt, 715 pages, $35.00. David Levering Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 forW.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. The Du Bois portrayed in that volume is a brilliant youth and later a powerful idealist who wrote […]