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In this intricate, sumptuously written account, Pulitzer winner Lewis (W.E.B. Du Bois) offers a unique version of the American rags-to-riches story that shows how Black strivers had to navigate the ...

My cousin Janet Perkins, a preternaturally youthful and glamorous member of that little-red-glasses brigade recently satirized on “Saturday Night Live” — elderly middle-aged women who project boldness ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: David Levering Lewis is a Professor for the History Department in the New York University with 27 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 Booknotes ...

In honor of W. E.B. Du Bois and Black History Month, the Stockbridge Library is hosting a lecture with two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian and author David Levering Lewis. The author of eight ...

After his 1895 speech advocating economic opportunities for African-Americans, the press asked of Booker T. Washington, "Is He a New Negro?" According to photographic historian Deborah Willis, the ...

Condensed and updated ed. of: 2 vol. set, originally published 1993-2000. NMAF copy 39088019777622 Gift from the Collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. The two time Pulitzer Prize winning biography of W E ...

Includes 150 of the photographs that W.E.B. Du Bois included in his display on African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition. These photographs are part of the Daniel Murray ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and a professor of history at New York University. He is ...