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LiteracyStudies@OSU, together with The History of the Book presents
Professor Stephen Hall, Department of History: "African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America."

November 6, 2009, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 311 Denney Hall

Professor Stephen Hall is the author of A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America, a volume in the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture published in October 2009 by the University of North Carolina Press.

The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. Hall charts the origins, meanings, methods, evolution, and maturation of African American historical writing from the period of the Early Republic to the 20th century and provides a holistic portrait of African American history informed by developments within and outside the African American community.

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