George M. Fredrickson is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History Emeritus at Stanford. His recent books include Racism: A Short History and Not Just Black and White, a collection co-edited with Nancy Foner.
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Redcoat Liberation
August 10, 2006
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
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They’ll Take Their Stand
May 25, 2006
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
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Still Separate & Unequal
November 17, 2005
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by Ira Katznelson
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The Long Trek to Freedom
July 14, 2005
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
The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
by Andrew Levy
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America
by Fergus M. Bordewich
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Is There Hope for the South?
October 21, 2004
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent
edited by Anthony Dunbar
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America’s Original Sin
March 25, 2004
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
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Wise Man
February 28, 2002
Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture
by John Higham, edited by Carl J. Guarneri
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The Double Life of W.E.B. Du Bois
February 8, 2001
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 by David Levering Lewis
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The Election Mess
February 8, 2001
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The Skeleton in the Closet
November 2, 2000
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
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‘The Darker Side’
June 15, 2000
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The Strange Death of Segregation
May 6, 1999
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
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‘America’s Caste System’: Two Exchanges
November 20, 1997
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America’s Caste System: Will It Change?
October 23, 1997
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
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Far from the Promised Land
April 18, 1996
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
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Land of Opportunity?
April 4, 1996
Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation by Jennifer L Hochschild
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Demonizing the American Dilemma
October 19, 1995
The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society by Dinesh D'Souza
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Red, Black, and White
June 8, 1995
Stories of Scottsboro
by James Goodman
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
by Robin D.G. Kelley
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
by Michael K. Honey
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
by John Egerton
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Pioneer
September 23, 1993
Race and History: Selected Essays, 19381988 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.
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The Old New Order
March 25, 1993
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers
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African Americans & African Africans
September 26, 1991
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
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‘Illiberal Education’: An Exchange
September 26, 1991
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The Making of Mandela
September 27, 1990
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
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Can South Africa Change?
October 26, 1989
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
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Down on the Farm
April 23, 1987
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
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Redemption Through Violence
November 21, 1985
The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 18001890
by Richard Slotkin
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Self-Made Hero
June 27, 1985
Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years
by Dickson J. Preston
The Mind of Frederick Douglass by Waldo E. Martin Jr.
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Panic in the South
December 6, 1984
The Crucible of Race: BlackWhite Relations in the American South Since Emancipation by Joel Williamson
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Birth of a Nation
November 8, 1984
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy by Eric Foner
The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 18501890 by Steven Hahn
White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia by Charles L. Flynn Jr.
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Class Act
January 19, 1984
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, by Eugene D. Genovese
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Lincoln and His Legend
July 15, 1982
Lincoln’s Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings by Charles B. Strozier
Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality by Dwight G. Anderson
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Settlers and ‘Savages’ on Two Frontiers
March 18, 1982
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
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The Experiment at Davis Bend
May 28, 1981
The Pursuit of a Dream
by Janet Sharp Hermann
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A Founding Family
November 9, 1978
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.
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Disclaimer
November 25, 1976
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The Gutman Report
September 30, 1976
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
by Herbert G. Gutman
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The Uses of Antislavery
October 16, 1975
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis
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Will South Africa Explode?
October 31, 1974
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
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The Moor Oppressed?
May 16, 1974
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Why Blacks Were Left Out
February 7, 1974
The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
by Winthrop D. Jordan