Anyone who has embarked on a search for their ancestors knows the feeling of just wanting more — more knowledge, more insight, more proof of lives lived. Who were these long-gone people, beyond a ...

In the opening pages of his fascinating and important new book, historian David Levering Lewis sits in an Atlanta church beneath a stained-glass window that depicts his maternal grandmother as the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acclaimed actor Courtney B. Vance is embarking on a significant cultural journey by lending his voice to the audiobook version of “W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race,” the Pulitzer ...

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 ...

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 ...