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Author of 2 books including Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876

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Steven Hahn

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Author of 21 books including A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Booker T. Washington

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Author of 413 books including Up from Slavery

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death. Born to slavery and freed by the…

Lisa McGirr

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Author of 22 books including Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right

Lisa McGirr is professor of History at Harvard University.

Heather Andrea Williams

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Author of 4 books including Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

Christopher Capozzola

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Author of 3 books including Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen