Herbert Aptheker

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Herbert Aptheker


Born
in Brooklyn, The United States
July 31, 1915

Died
March 17, 2003

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Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951-1994). He compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African-American history.

From the 1940s, Aptheker was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse. David Horowitz described Aptheker as "the Communist Party’s most prominent Cold War intellectual".[1] He was blacklisted in academia during the 1950s because of his Communist Party membership.

Aptheker's master's thesis, a study of the 1831 Nat Turner slave
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American Negro Slave Revolts

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The American Revolution: 17...

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The Fraud of "Soviet Anti-S...

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Early Years of the Republic...

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A Documentary History of th...

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Anti-Racism in U.S. History...

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Nature of Democracy, Freedo...

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