Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003)
Author of American Negro Slave Revolts: Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel, and Others
About the Author
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Works by Herbert Aptheker
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States Volume 1: From Colonial Times to the Civil War (1975) 69 copies
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States Volume 2: From the Reconstruction Era to 1910 (1951) 60 copies
A Documentary History Of The Negro People In The United States Volume 4: 1933-1945 (2000) 39 copies, 1 review
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States: From Colonial Time to the Founding of the NAACP in 1910 (1951) 30 copies
A Documentary History Of The Negro People In The United States Volume 5: From the End of World War II to the Korean War (1993) 25 copies
Early Years of the Republic: from the end of the Revolution to the first administration of Washington (1783-1793) (1976) 22 copies
A Documentary History Of The Negro People In The United States Volume 6: From the Korean War to the Emergence of Martin Luther King,Jr. (1993) 17 copies
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States 1960-1968: From the Alabama Protests to the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1979) 16 copies
Marxism and Democracy 13 copies
John Brown: American martyr 3 copies
The Negro today 3 copies
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois: Selections, 1934-1944 (Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois) (1976) 2 copies
The American Civil War 2 copies
African American history and radical historiography : essays in honor of Herbert Aptheker (1998) 1 copy
America's Racist Laws 1 copy
Freedom in history 1 copy
Associated Works
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1975) — Introduction, some editions — 158 copies
Highlights of a Fighting History: 60 Years of the Communist Party, USA (1979) — Contributor — 27 copies
Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) — Introduction, some editions — 18 copies
In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History (1986) — Contributor — 14 copies
Mainstream : volume 1 number 4 Fall 1947 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1915-07-31
- Date of death
- 2003-03-17
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Columbia University (BA)
- Occupations
- historian (Marxist)
political activist - Organizations
- Food and Tobacco Workers Union (educational worker)
Abolish Peonage Committee (secretary)
Communist Party USA (member)
United States Army (major)
American Institute For Marxist Studies (executive director) - Relationships
- Aptheker, Bettina (daughter)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943),
a classic in the field. He also compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). In addition, he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African American history. He was the show more literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois. show less
a classic in the field. He also compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). In addition, he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African American history. He was the show more literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois. show less
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