W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

by W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical,...

Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

by W.E.B. Du Bois & Mack H. Jones

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history, evaluates...

The Souls of Black Folk

by W.E.B. Du Bois

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."  Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature.  In...

John Brown

by W.E.B. Du Bois & David R. Roediger

A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.

In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms...