Residents and visitors to Great Barrington can now take a seat on a marble bench, next to a life-size statue of the post ...

Du Bois’s writings form the backdrop of an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (): Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.It will be the fourth installment in the ...

In other words, the reason I keep coming back to “Black Reconstruction” is that Du Bois’s mode of analysis can help us (or, at least, me) look past so much of the ephemera of our politics to ...

Du Bois describes Reconstruction as “one of the most extraordinary experiments of Marxism that the world, before the Russian revolution, had seen.” The parallel is apt.

Chairs Ari Zorn, left, and Julie Michaels thank the many people and organizations that made the day happen. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The ...

But my touchstone for thinking about the period continues to be W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Black Reconstruction,” published in 1935 after years of painstaking research, often inhibited by segregation ...

When he published “Black Reconstruction” in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois challenged Americans to see the years following the Civil War as a counterpoint to the Jim Crow era in the 20th century.

W.E.B. Du Bois's massive essay about the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Du Bois argues that the period represented an potential revolutionary moment in which the southern ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — MiRi Park, the Broadway dancer, scholar, mother, teacher and doctorate student, wasn't going to have time to read a copy of "Black Reconstruction in America," a 750-page book by W.E ...

Why did Reconstruction fail? It's a heady question for American historians — not least because despite seminal scholarship on the subject, from W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in America ...