February 26, 2009
Du Bois Institute Book Party - Author Reading and Signing
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
A Celebration of New Publications by Harvard Faculty and Du Bois Fellows
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author of "Lincoln on Race and Slavery" and "Finding Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past"
Werner Sollors
Author of "Ethnic Modernism"
Glenda Carpio
Author of "Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery"
John Stauffer
Author of "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln"
Linda Heywood
Author of "Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Founding of the Americas, 1585-1660"