George M. Fredrickson
George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His most recent books are Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner. (August 2006)
From the Review
August 10, 2006: Redcoat Liberation
Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty by Cassandra Pybus
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution by Gary B. Nash
May 25, 2006: They'll Take Their Stand
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
November 17, 2005: Still Separate & Unequal
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
July 14, 2005: The Long Trek to Freedom
Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery by Steven M. Wise
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South by Adam Rothman
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich
The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves by Andrew Levy
October 21, 2004: Is There Hope for the South?
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent edited by Anthony Dunbar
March 25, 2004: America's Original Sin
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery by David Brion Davis
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery by Don E. Fehrenbacher, completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee
February 28, 2002: Wise Man
Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture by John Higham, edited by Carl J. Guarneri
February 8, 2001: The Double Life of W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 by David Levering Lewis
February 8, 2001: The Election Mess (letter)
November 2, 2000: The Skeleton in the Closet
Slave Narratives edited by William L. Andrews, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
June 15, 2000: 'The Darker Side' (letter)
May 6, 1999: The Strange Death of Segregation
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil by Anthony W. Marx
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years by Robert Kinloch Massie
November 20, 1997: 'America's Caste System': Two Exchanges
October 23, 1997: America's Caste System: Will It Change?
Liberal Racism by Jim Sleeper
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom, by Abigail Thernstrom
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis by Orlando Patterson
April 18, 1996: Far from the Promised Land
Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics by Manning Marable
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy by Stephen Steinberg
The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race by Benjamin DeMott
April 4, 1996: Land of Opportunity?
Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation by Jennifer L Hochschild
October 19, 1995: Demonizing the American Dilemma
The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society by Dinesh D'Souza
September 23, 1993: Pioneer
Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938–1988 by John Hope Franklin
The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century by John Hope Franklin
The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin edited by Eric Anderson, edited by Alfred A. Moss Jr.
March 25, 1993: The Old New Order
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers
September 26, 1991: 'Illiberal Education': An Exchange
September 26, 1991: African Americans & African Africans
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare by James H. Cone
The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism in South Africa by Julie Frederikse
Sobukwe and Apartheid by Benjamin Pogrund
September 27, 1990: The Making of Mandela
A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson
The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress by Heidi Holland
South Africa Belongs to Us: A History of the ANC by Francis Meli
Apartheid's Rebels: Inside South Africa's Hidden War by Stephen M. Davis
Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela by Fatima Meer
October 26, 1989: Can South Africa Change?
In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Period by Martin Meredith
South Africa: No Turning Back edited by Shaun Johnson, foreword by Lord Bullock
Inside Apartheid: One Woman's Struggle in South Africa by Janet Levine
Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect edited by Jeffrey Butler, edited by Richard Elphick, edited by David Welsh
After Apartheid: The Solution for South Africa by Frances Kendall, by Leon Louw, foreword by Samuel Motsuenyane
Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge by Francis Wilson, by Mamphela Ramphele
Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight edited by John D. Brewer
April 23, 1987: Down on the Farm
The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America edited by Steven Hahn, edited by Jonathan Prude
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie by John Mack Faragher
November 21, 1985: Redemption Through Violence
The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 by Richard Slotkin
June 27, 1985: Self-Made Hero
Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years by Dickson J. Preston
The Mind of Frederick Douglass by Waldo E. Martin Jr.
December 6, 1984: Panic in the South
The Crucible of Race: Black–White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation by Joel Williamson
November 8, 1984: Birth of a Nation
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy by Eric Foner
The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850–1890 by Steven Hahn
White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia by Charles L. Flynn Jr.
January 19, 1984: Class Act
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, by Eugene D. Genovese
July 15, 1982: Lincoln and His Legend
Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings by Charles B. Strozier
Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality by Dwight G. Anderson
March 18, 1982: Settlers and 'Savages' on Two Frontiers
The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared edited by Howard Lamar, edited by Leonard Thompson
The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820 edited by Richard Elphick, edited by Hermann Giliomee
Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa edited by Shula Marks, edited by Anthony Atmore
May 28, 1981: The Experiment at Davis Bend
The Pursuit of a Dream by Janet Sharp Hermann
November 9, 1978: A Founding Family
Chariot of Fire: Religion and the Beecher Family by Marie Caskey
Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America by Clifford E. Clark Jr.
November 25, 1976: Disclaimer (letter)
September 30, 1976: The Gutman Report
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 by Herbert G. Gutman
October 16, 1975: The Uses of Antislavery
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis
October 31, 1974: Will South Africa Explode?
No Neutral Ground by Joel Carlson
Justice in South Africa by Albie Sachs
Modernizing Racial Domination: The Dynamics of South African Politics by Heribert Adam
A Taste of Power by Peter Randall
May 16, 1974: The Moor Oppressed? (letter)
February 7, 1974: Why Blacks Were Left Out
The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan
Books by George M. Fredrickson
Racism: A Short History (2002)
The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements (1997)
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (1995)
The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1993)
The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality (1988)
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1981)
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 (1971)