Collected works of W.E.B. Du Bois published
Only 111 years ago, Harvard University published a doctoral thesis called The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 as the first volume in its Historical Monograph Series.
The author was W.E.B. Du Bois, who was also the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. That publication commenced a literary career that spanned 72 years, extending past Du Bois's death in 1963 to include the posthumous publication of his autobiography in 1968. The books, articles, and reports that Du Bois produced in those years made him the pre-eminent African-American intellectual both in his day and beyond it.
"Like so many other African-American intellectuals of my generation, I'm a Du Bois junkie," says Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor of humanities at Harvard and director of that university's institute for African-American research, which bears Du Bois's name. "I've read all of his work."
As the editor in chief of the 19 volumes of The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois, published by Oxford University Press, Mr. Gates has ensured that others can now read most of Du Bois's prominent writings. The new edition gathers 21 works penned solely by the author, including his well-known volumes of essays — The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (1920), and Dusk of Dawn (1940) — and his books in genres including history, sociology, memoir, and fiction.
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The author was W.E.B. Du Bois, who was also the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. That publication commenced a literary career that spanned 72 years, extending past Du Bois's death in 1963 to include the posthumous publication of his autobiography in 1968. The books, articles, and reports that Du Bois produced in those years made him the pre-eminent African-American intellectual both in his day and beyond it.
"Like so many other African-American intellectuals of my generation, I'm a Du Bois junkie," says Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor of humanities at Harvard and director of that university's institute for African-American research, which bears Du Bois's name. "I've read all of his work."
As the editor in chief of the 19 volumes of The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois, published by Oxford University Press, Mr. Gates has ensured that others can now read most of Du Bois's prominent writings. The new edition gathers 21 works penned solely by the author, including his well-known volumes of essays — The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (1920), and Dusk of Dawn (1940) — and his books in genres including history, sociology, memoir, and fiction.