CHAD L. WILLIAMS

Chad Williams is an award-winning historian of the Black experience in the United States and expert on W. E. B. Du Bois, African Americans, and World War I

He is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University

The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. ”

— James Baldwin

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

— Toni Morrison