Reviews
William Wells Brown: The Modern World from the Standpoint of Its Victims (on Ezra Greenspan’s William Wells Brown: An African American Life and William Wells Brown’s Clotel & Other Writings, edited by Ezra Greenspan)
He who saves a nation violates no law. —Donald J. Trump, plagiarizing the character Napoleon, in Rod Steiger’s Waterloo (1970) They boast that America is the […]
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Reviews
Du Bois for the Moment, Du Bois for the Millennium (on W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction, edited by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Nahum Dimitri Chandler’s “Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois)
At the end of his inimitable 1909 biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois poses some troubling questions about the enduring significance of the great abolitionist half a […]
Read MoreIN Fall 2022