Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham to Visit Emory To Discuss John Hope Franklin’s “From Slavery to Freedom”
Author and scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham will visit Emory in mid-April to give a presentation on her work and her longtime collaboration with John Hope Franklin.
Higginbotham worked with Franklin, who died in March 2009, on a thorough revision of From Slavery to Freedom, his classic survey of African-American history first published in 1947. Higginbotham, chairperson of Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies, is co-author of the ninth edition, published in January, which features President Barack Obama on the cover.
The presentation, which is free and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m. Friday, April 16 in the Jones Room on Level 3 of the Woodruff Library at Emory University. Light refreshments and a book signing will follow the program; books will be available for purchase. For more information on this event, click "Read More."
Higginbotham will speak about Franklin and his place in history, followed by remarks from Emory University Provost Earl Lewis. The discussion will be moderated by David Eltis, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History in Emory’s Department of History, which is co-sponsoring the program with the James Weldon Johnson Institute and the Department of African American Studies.
The new edition was updated with greater coverage of African-American women, transnational artistic and political movements, differing expressions of protest, community activism, civil rights and black power, as well as current events such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the globalization of hip-hop and the election of the first African-American U.S. president.
Randall K. Burkett, curator of African American collections at Emory Libraries’ Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), says Higginbotham’s contributions revitalize the classic text, which was last updated in 2002.
“There’s so much work being done in the field in all aspects – in art history, music, African history, politics, literature, theater – and she really has the breadth to synthesize that material and bring it to bear,” Burkett says. “I think it will give this book a new life.”
Higginbotham is the author of several books, including Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920; editor-in-chief of the massive bibliography project The Harvard Guide to African-American History; and co-editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of several books including Harlem Renaissance Lives and the eight-volume African-American National Biography.
Franklin is considered the dean of African-American historians. “He wrote on a wide range of topics with insight and power,” Burkett says. Franklin is known as the successor to the “father of black history,” Carter G. Woodson, who wrote The Negro in Our History, the foremost text that covers African-American history through the first part of the 20th century, Burkett says.
Higginbotham’s talk will be accompanied by a small exhibition of earlier surveys of African-American history drawn from the Carter G. Woodson Library in MARBL.
Burkett says Higginbotham, whom he has known for many years, recently sent several of her graduate students to use MARBL’s African-American collections for research, and he looks forward to increasing her awareness of the collection’s expanding offerings with a tour before her presentation. “I’m hoping a number of other graduate students she’s working with will avail themselves of the great resources we have here,” Burkett says. “She’s an extraordinarily conscientious and effective mentor to young scholars.”
Woodruff Library is located at 540 Asbury Cir., Atlanta, GA 30322. Parking is available in the Fishburne and Peavine decks; visit http://map.emory.edu/ for locations. For more information, call 404.727.6887, e-mail marbl@emory.edu or visit http://marbl.library.emory.edu/news-events.
Author and scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham will visit Emory in mid-April to give a presentation on her work and her longtime collaboration with John Hope Franklin.
Higginbotham worked with Franklin, who died in March 2009, on a thorough revision of From Slavery to Freedom, his classic survey of African-American history first published in 1947. Higginbotham, chairperson of Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies, is co-author of the ninth edition, published in January, which features President Barack Obama on the cover.
The presentation, which is free and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m. Friday, April 16 in the Jones Room on Level 3 of the Woodruff Library at Emory University. Light refreshments and a book signing will follow the program; books will be available for purchase. For more information on this event, click "Read More."
Higginbotham will speak about Franklin and his place in history, followed by remarks from Emory University Provost Earl Lewis. The discussion will be moderated by David Eltis, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History in Emory’s Department of History, which is co-sponsoring the program with the James Weldon Johnson Institute and the Department of African American Studies.
The new edition was updated with greater coverage of African-American women, transnational artistic and political movements, differing expressions of protest, community activism, civil rights and black power, as well as current events such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the globalization of hip-hop and the election of the first African-American U.S. president.
Randall K. Burkett, curator of African American collections at Emory Libraries’ Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), says Higginbotham’s contributions revitalize the classic text, which was last updated in 2002.
“There’s so much work being done in the field in all aspects – in art history, music, African history, politics, literature, theater – and she really has the breadth to synthesize that material and bring it to bear,” Burkett says. “I think it will give this book a new life.”
Higginbotham is the author of several books, including Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920; editor-in-chief of the massive bibliography project The Harvard Guide to African-American History; and co-editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of several books including Harlem Renaissance Lives and the eight-volume African-American National Biography.
Franklin is considered the dean of African-American historians. “He wrote on a wide range of topics with insight and power,” Burkett says. Franklin is known as the successor to the “father of black history,” Carter G. Woodson, who wrote The Negro in Our History, the foremost text that covers African-American history through the first part of the 20th century, Burkett says.
Higginbotham’s talk will be accompanied by a small exhibition of earlier surveys of African-American history drawn from the Carter G. Woodson Library in MARBL.
Burkett says Higginbotham, whom he has known for many years, recently sent several of her graduate students to use MARBL’s African-American collections for research, and he looks forward to increasing her awareness of the collection’s expanding offerings with a tour before her presentation. “I’m hoping a number of other graduate students she’s working with will avail themselves of the great resources we have here,” Burkett says. “She’s an extraordinarily conscientious and effective mentor to young scholars.”
Woodruff Library is located at 540 Asbury Cir., Atlanta, GA 30322. Parking is available in the Fishburne and Peavine decks; visit http://map.emory.edu/ for locations. For more information, call 404.727.6887, e-mail marbl@emory.edu or visit http://marbl.library.emory.edu/news-events.
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