As I mentioned in a previous review of a Richard Nixon biography, Watergate was the beginning of my fascination with politics and American history. The...
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10 October 2019
It must have been somewhat difficult to grow up as the namesake of one of the most prominent and controversial human rights leader in American history,...
27 August 2019
As a professor of African American history, I have very little interest in slavery. I am painfully aware that the insidious institution constructed and...
15 August 2019
I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Ashe in the early 1980s. It was in a little tennis shop in a strip mall somewhere on Bethel Road. He was representing...
18 June 2019
Never in the history of First Ladies’ memoirs has there been a book so eagerly awaited as the one written by Michelle Obama. When Becoming hit the...
29 August 2018
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the many things that occurred in America’s most horrible year in the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth...