David Levering Lewis

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1. David Levering Lewis

   Author of W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 [1868], When Harlem Was In Vogue, W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

2. W. E. B. Du Bois

   Author of The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, John Brown

3. Taylor Branch

   Author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

4. Ira Berlin

   Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves

5. Leon F. Litwack

   Author of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860

6. Langston Hughes

   Author of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Folks: Stories, The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century Series)

7. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

8. Hugh Kennedy

   Author of The Great Arab Conquests, The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty

9. Roger Crowley

   Author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

10. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    Author of The Age of Jackson, The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2)

11. James Reston Jr.

    Author of Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade, Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

12. Steven Hahn

    Author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

13. Eugene D. Genovese

    Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

14. Jean Toomer

    Author of Cane, Cane (Norton Critical Edition)

15. Winthrop D. Jordan

    Author of White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

16. Norma Smith

    Author of Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience

17. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Author of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

18. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Lincoln, Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

19. Alain Locke

    Author of The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

20. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945