Virtual event

Virtual event.

This event is part of the Washington History Seminar series. It is cosponsored by the AHA and the Woodrow Wilson Center and features author Chad Williams and commentators Michelle Moyd and David Blight. Register here.

David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. Blight’s newest books include annotated editions, with introductory essay, of Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (Yale Univ. Press, 2013), Robert Penn Warren’s Who Speaks for the Negro, (Yale Univ. Press, 2014), and the monograph, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, published August 2011), which received the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book in non-fiction on racism and human diversity. 

Michelle Moyd is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is a historian of eastern Africa, with special interests in the region’s history of soldiering and warfare. Her first book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa explores the social and cultural history of African soldiers (askari) in the colonial army of German East Africa, today’s Tanzania. She is particularly interested in bringing the experience of nineteenth-century African-American soldiers into a broader analysis of soldiers of empire.

Co-presented by New England Historic Genealogical Society / American Ancestors and WGBH Forum Network

Join Books Inc. Berkeley in welcoming Chad Williams to the shop for a discussion about his book The Wounded World: W.E.B Du Bois and the First World War!

Chad will be joined in conversation by UC Berkeley History Professor Waldo Martin.

Virtual event

This event is free with first come, first serve seating.

Minkah Makalani is the Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He works in Black political thought, intellectual history, and the Black radical tradition in the Caribbean and U.S. He is the author of, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 (UNC Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Davarian Baldwin) of Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (Minnesota, 2013).

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and A Cappella Books welcome award-winning author and Brandeis University Professor of History and African and African American Studies Chad L. Williams for a discussion of his new book, “The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.” Williams will appear in conversation with Carol Anderson, Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of the National Book Award-nominated “One Person, No Vote.”

This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the venue. Masks are optional.

Chad Williams, history professor and author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, presents The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. Chad will be in conversation with Brooke Blower, history professor and author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars.

This is a ticketed event. Your $5 ticket can be put towards a purchase of the book at the event. Alternatively, you can add a purchase of the book to your order and receive a free ticket. Either way, buy tickets through the link below (fees apply) or by calling us at 781-431-1160 during store hours (no fees). 

Harvard Book Store welcomes CHAD WILLIAMS—Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University—for a discussion of his new book The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. He will be joined in conversation by HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.—Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

W. E. B. Du Bois Center and University of Massachusetts-Amherst Libraries Annual Du Bois Lecture.

View lecture here.