William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown (1814-1884), a former slave and abolitionist leader, wrote the first novel published by an African American. He wrote the first military history of African Americans, The Negro in the American Rebellion. This text assailed those whose hatred and ignorance inclined them to keep blacks oppressed after Appomattox.
Author of…
The Negro in the American Rebellion
His Heroism and His Fidelity
In 1863, as the Civil War raged, the escaped slave, abolitionist, and novelist William Wells Brown identified two groups most harmful to his race. “The first and most relentless,” he explained, “are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation.…
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Assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania… - Ira J. Bach
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Assistant professor of social foundations and qualitative research at Oklahoma State University and serves as core faculty in the Women’s Studies program… - Ronald T. Bailey
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Professor of English at the University of Houston, where she teaches translation studies and American literature… - H. Robert Baker
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Great–granddaughter of diarist John Banks… - Bryan E. Bannon
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Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of philosophy at St. Louis University… - Ruth Bardon
Educated at Swarthmore College, the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, now lives in Durham, North Carolina… - William Barillas
Assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse… - Charles Ferguson Barker
Geologist with an environmental consulting firm in Detroit… - Richard G. Barlow
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Visiting assistant professor of women’s studies at Hamilton College… - R. L. Barth
Author of A Soldier's Time, Abandon Hope, and, most recently, First Morning, Last Night… - Gretchen Bauer
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Currently a K-12 school superintendent, having originally been a history teacher and librarian… - Roland M. Baumann
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Professor of English at Ohio University and the author of A Woman’s Portion: Ideology, Culture, and the Female Novel Tradition as well as numerous articles and essays… - Diane L. Beers
Associate professor of history at Holyoke Community College, where she teaches social, environmental, and African American history… - Heike Behrend
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Professor of history at Illinois State University… - William Beinart
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford… - Michael Les Benedict
Professor of history at the Ohio State University… - J. S. Benseler
Practicing clinical radiologist and associate professor of radiology at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, with over twenty years of experience teaching medical students, interns, and residents… - Penny Berens
Freelance writer and editor… - John Berkey
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Professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario… - Bill Best
Professor, coach, and administrator at Berea College for forty years, retiring in 2002… - Vivian Bickford-Smith
Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town… - Ancella R. Bickley
Retired professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College… - Charles P. Bigger
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Professor of history and Benjamin Franklin Professor of Liberal Arts at Gettysburg College, where he has taught since 1989… - David Birmingham
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Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York… - Alexander Blackburn
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Assistant professor of history at Briar Cliff College… - Harman Blennerhassett
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Associate professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada… - David J. Bodenhamer
Professor of history and the executive director of The Polis Center at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis… - Anna Bohlin
Researcher in social anthropology at the Centre for Public Sector Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden… - George Clement Bond
Author of The Politics of Change in a Zambian Community and co-editor of African Christianity, Social Construction of the Past, and AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean… - Patrick Bond
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Member of the August 15, 1945 Foundation, an organization of survivors of the Japanese prisoner of war camps… - Yves Bonnefoy
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Professor of urban and labour history at the University of the Witwatersrand… - Philip Boobbyer
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Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Cape Town… - Anne Booth
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Assistant dean at Kent State University, Salem Campus… - Carol Boram-Hays
Lecturer at the Ohio State University, where she received her doctorate in art history… - Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
Associate professor of Spanish at Michigan Technological University… - Ulbe Bosma
Senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam… - Alain Bosquet
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Professor of French at the University of Iowa, specializing in African literature for the past twenty-five years… - Kenneth R. Bowling
Coeditor of The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791, and the author of The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital… - Belinda Bozzoli
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Author of Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, From Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice… - David J. Bradshaw
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Research Professor Emeritus and Associate in American Literature at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio… - William Brandon
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Assistant professor in history at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana… - Michael Bright
Professor emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University… - Susan B. Brill
Assistant professor of English at Bradley University, where she teaches critical theory and Native American Indian literatures… - Niels Brimnes
Associate professor of history at Aarhus University in Denmark… - Daniel Brinton
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Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he edited the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature from 1997 to 2007… - Vigdis Broch-Due
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Author of Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630, and numerous studies in African and world history… - John Brose
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens… - Kenneth S. Broun
Henry Brandeis Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina Law School… - Dale Patrick Brown
Author of Brilliance and Balderdash: Early Lectures at Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library… - Duncan Brown
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Author of The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily and Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution… - Jason Lee Brown
Contributing editor to River Styx… - Karen Brown
Currently an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford… - William Wells Brown
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Teacher and writer at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas… - Robert Browning
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Philos- opher, professor emerita of the University of Paris VIII, and the author of many books in the fields of political philosophy, aesthetics, contemporary art, the baroque, ornament, Asian art, and virtual art… - Geoffrey L. Buckley
Professor in the department of geography and the Program in Environmental Studies at Ohio University… - Oliver S. Buckton
Associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he teaches Victorian literature, critical theory, and film… - Ralph Bunche
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Assistant professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis… - Edmund Burke III
Research professor of history at the University of California at Santa Cruz… - Donald Burness
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Professor of African history at Clemson University… - Emily S. Burrill
Assistant professor of women’s studies and history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill… - Sidney Burris
Assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas… - Theresa L. Burriss
Chair of Appalachian Studies and Director of the Appalachian Regional & Rural Studies Center at Radford University, Virginia… - Andrew Burton
Honorary research associate of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, currently based in Addis Ababa… - David H. Burton
General editor of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft… - Fred W. Bush
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Research scientist at the Ohio State University… - Anthony Butler
Professor of political studies at the University of Cape Town… - Colin Butler
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Professor and cofounder of the doctoral and joint master’s programs in peace and conflict studies, and founding executive director of the Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba…
