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Leon Litwack

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#381

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#673

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#175

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Leon Litwack's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Leon Frank Litwack was an American historian whose scholarship focused on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century. He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize for his 1979 book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Leon Litwack's Published Works

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Published Works

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (2003) (370)
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998) (307)
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. (1981) (304)
North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States (1961) (217)
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000) (193)
The Negro in the Ante-Bellum North@@@North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. (1962) (137)
The Black Codes of the South (1966) (57)
Black leaders of the nineteenth century (1989) (25)
How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow (2009) (24)
The Federal Government and the Free Negro, 1790-1860 (1958) (19)
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: The Life and Thought of Henry Highland Garnet (1972) (18)
The American Labor Movement (1986) (16)
Reconstruction; an anthology of revisionist writings (1969) (14)
Advancing American art : painting, politics, and cultural confrontation at mid-century (1989) (12)
"Fight the Power!" the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement (2009) (11)
Trouble in Mind: The Bicentennial and the Afro-American Experience (1987) (11)
Jim Crow Blues (2004) (9)
The Harvard guide to African-American history (2001) (8)
The Abolitionist Dilemma: The Antislavery Movement and the Northern Negro (1961) (8)
The White Man's Fear of the Educated Negro: How the Negro Was Fitted for His Natural and Logical Calling (1998) (6)
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New American Nation Series. (1990) (6)
7. The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist (1965) (3)
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. An Exhibition of the Allen-Littlefield Collection at the New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street, New York, N.Y., March 14, 2000-October 1, 2000 (2002) (2)
Conquering a Continent (1991) (2)
“Pearl Harbor Blues”: Black Americans and World War II (2003) (2)
Becoming a world power (1991) (2)
Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century. (1989) (1)
An American Epic@@@Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. (1980) (1)
For African Americans, Justice Was Often at the End of a Rope (2000) (1)
A Plea for Equality (2011) (0)
How the Negro Was Fitted for His Natural and Logical Calling (1998) (0)
Neglected History: Essays in Negro History by a College President. By Charles H. Wesley. (Wilberforce, Ohio: Central State College Press. 1965. Pp. 200. $2.00.) (1966) (0)
The Importance of Storytelling: Students and Teachers Respond to September 11 (2007) (0)
Neglected History: Essays in Negro History by a College President (1966) (0)
The United States, Brief Edition (1957) (0)
The OAH in Philadelphia (2011) (0)
1980 Award. About the Aftermath of Slavery in the United States (1993) (0)
Opening Ceremonies for the Traveling Exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War (2014) (0)
Before the Point of No Return: An Exchange of Views on the Cold War, the Reagan Doctrine, and What Is to Come (1986) (0)
The Black Codes of the South. By Theodore Brantner Wilson. Southern Historical Publications, Number 6. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1965. 177 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $5.95.) (1966) (0)
Hellhound on My Trail': Race Relations in the South (1998) (0)
Leon F. Litwack's Southern California religious and fraternal collection, 1905-1922 (2005) (0)

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University of California, Berkeley