hominidmedia: people: web du bois


media introduction:

image credit: W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, 1868-1963 by C.M. Battey."Photo shows W.E.B. Du Bois, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right." c. 1919 May 31. Digital ID#: ppmsca 338818. Reproduction ID#: LC-DIG-ppmsca-38818. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. [loc.gov]

Brian Lamb, David Levering Lewis. Booknotes: 'W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography of Race.' 5 November 1993. c-span. hosted by [c-span.org].

Levering Lewis on DuBois:
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Levering Lewis transcript:
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Public historian West is has worked on Du Bois (although no-one has spent more time on it than Levering Lewis). This is a West lecture at Dartmouth in 2017:

Cornel West. The Historical Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois - Class 1 Dartmouth College, ENGL 53.40 - Summer 2017 hosted by [.youtube].

standard narrative:

Keith Ian Polakoff, Norman Rosenberg, Grania Bolton, Ronald Story, Jordan Schwarz. Generations of Americans: A History of the United States. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1976. 556-57, 677.

Polakoff et al. on Du Bois:
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Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 23, 175, 185-6, 192-3, 210, 328-9, 348-9, 363, 448, 686.

James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Mark H. Lytle, Michael B. Stoff. Nation of Nations: A concise Narrative of the American Republic. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1996. 567-568. (First printing, 1990).

John Mack Faragher, Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. (First Published: 1995). Print. 417-19, 440-41, 517.

Faragher et al. on Du Bois:
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Phillip Jenkins. A History of the United States. Second edition. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 155. (First published, 1997).

James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 603, 656(i), 764.

Eric Foner. Give Me Liberty! An American History. WW. Norton: Second Seagull Ed., 2009. (First Published: 2005). 699, 707-8, 710, 715-6, 743, 747, 787, 832, 869, 907.

Thomas Bender. A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. 11-14, 100-101, 190-191, 209-210, 224, 234.

Bender on Du Bois:
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James West Davidson and Christine Leigh Heyrman. US: A Narrative History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 456.

Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, Jane Gerhard. Women and the Making of America. New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009. 527.

Susan-Mary Grant. A Concise History of the United States of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 219, 272-274, 417-418.

Grant on Du Bois:
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ileana Silverman and Jake Silverstein (ed). The 1619 Project New York: One World, 2021. xxxiii, 27, 85, 113, 183, 185, 306, 474.

Selections from David Levering Lewis' oeuvre:
When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Oxford UP, 1989. Print.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: H. Holt, 1993. Print.
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: H. Holt, 2000. Print.

some other Du Bois monographs:
Hubbard, Dolan (ed.) The Souls of Black Folk, One Hundred Years Later. U of MO, 2003
Wolfenstein, Eugene Victor A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk. Cornell, 2007.
Gooding-Williams, Robert. In The Shadow of Du Bois. Harvard, 2009.
Shaw, Stephanie J. W. E. B. Du Bois and "The Souls of Black Folk". UNC, 2013.
Mullen, Bill V. W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line. London: Pluto Press, 2016

primary sources:

"mums292" U-Mass Amherst [umass.edu]. Material from the "James Aronson - W.E.B. Du Bois Collection" hosted by UMass Amherst. Quoting the collection, "Aronson served as the executive editor of the National Guardian, "the longest-lived and most prestigious of...postwar radical newspapers..." These documents include photos, articles, speeches and news clippings.

"W.E.B. Du Bois: A Resource Guide" Library of Congress. [loc.gov]

The Crisis Archive hosted by UPenn [upenn.edu]. A list of links to "Persistent Archives of Complete Issues" of The Crisis; includes the MJP collection (below) and the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the current iteration of The Crisis website.

Crisis. A Record of the Darker Races. Vol. 1, No. 1, Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt (editor) New York: NAACP, Nov. 1910 - Dec. 1922. [modjourn.org] Hosted by the Modernist Journals Project. The MJP collection hosts 148 issues of Crisis edited by Du Bois between 1910 and 1922. They provide a cultural component to the Harlem Renaissance and a theoretical component to black liberation and historical record of negro repression. This magazine was for the talented tenth, educated blacks, but Du Bois had a longer view of black liberation. His Crisis biography of John Brown shows the latter's impact on black thought post emancipation.