Race and History

In Race and History John Hope Franklin one of the nation's foremost historians collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but neglected historical figures; historiography; the connection between historical problems and contemporary issues; and the public role of the historian.. Collectively these essays reveal Franklin as a man who has exhibited immense courage and intellectual independence in the face of cultural and social bias a scholar who has set the tone and direction for twentieth-century African-American studies and a writer whose insistence on balance and truth has inspired two generations of historians.