Another image that I am hoping to use in my forthcoming book about the Crater and historical memory is the August 1968 cover of Ebony. I went through the entire run of Ebony and Jet magazines during the course of my research in an effort to better understand how African Americans remembered black Union soldiers [...]
John Hope Franklin
Today one of the truly gifted historians died at the age of 94. John Hope Franklin, however, was always more than a historian. He understood that the present and the past are closely interwoven and that the study of history is always the first step to addressing present injustices. Duke University has set up a [...]
