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 ...

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 ...

Over a video chat, David Levering Lewis is sharing the story about how he found the muse for his latest book inside one of Atlanta’s oldest churches. Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University ...

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 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 ...

NORTON — David Levering Lewis, the double Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of historian W.E.B. Du Bois, will address the Class of 2003 at Wheaton's 168th commencement on Saturday, May 17. Lewis won ...

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 ...

There is a well-known scene early in “Remembrance of Things Past” when Marcel Proust describes the enchantments of a magic lantern, “in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory ...

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 ...