UMass Amherst Libraries will host the twenty eighth Annual Du Bois Lecture on Thursday, February twenty third at 6:00 PM to mark the a hundred and fifty fifth anniversary of WEB Du Bois’ delivery. This 12 months’s speaker is Chad Williams. Lectures might be live-streamed and open to the general public freed from cost.

For almost 20 years, Webb Du Bois tried to jot down what he believed could be the definitive historical past of the African-American expertise in World Battle I. It reveals the wrestle for democracy, racial justice and peace within the twentieth century.

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Chad Williams

Chad Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of Historical past and African and African American Research at Brandeis College. Williams holds a Bachelor’s diploma with honors in Historical past and African American Research from UCLA, and a Grasp’s and Ph.D. in Historical past from Princeton College.

Williams specializes within the historical past of African People and the fashionable United States, African American army historical past, the World Battle I period, and the historical past of African American thought. He’s well known as one of many nation’s main students on African People and World Battle I. His first e-book, Trailblazers for Democracy: World Battle I Period African-American Troopers (College of North Carolina Press, 2010), was awarded the 2011 Liberty His Legacy Award. He obtained a Basis Award from the American Historian Society, his 2011 Distinguished Ebook Award from the Navy Historic Society, and he obtained a designation as his CHOICE Excellent Tutorial Title in 2011. He’s additionally co-editor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (College of Georgia Press, 2016) and Main Issues in African American Historical past, Second Version (Cengage Studying, 2016). His subsequent e-book, The Wounded World: WEB Du Bois and the First World Battle, might be printed in his 2023 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Williams has obtained prestigious fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Superior Research at Harvard College, the Council for American Research, the Schomburg Heart for the Research of Black Cultures, the Ford Basis, and the Institute for Residents and Students.

Williams has printed articles and e-book critiques in lots of main scholarly journals and collections, in addition to editorials and essays in The Atlantic, The Washington Publish, Time and The Dialog. He has appeared in quite a few tv historic commentaries, together with The Nice Battle, Reconstruction: Publish-Civil Battle America, American Presidents with Invoice Clinton, and Black Patriots: Buffalo and His Troopers. I went to

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Washington Publish: Buffalo capturing exposes how historical past shapes the current

The Dialog: As a patriot and black, Colin Powell personified the ‘duality’ of the African-American expertise

Atlantic: Du Bois gave voice to ache and promise

Annually, the library commemorates WEB Du Bois’ birthday with a lecture on subjects associated to his life and legacy. The library, named after his 1994 Du Bois, is residence to his in depth WEB Du Bois Papers and his 2009-founded WEB Du Bois Heart, which addresses race, labor and social justice. engages audiences in dialogue and scholarship on world points together with;