The best scholarship in African American history and culture compels us to expand our sense of who we are as a nation and forces us to engage seriously the experiences of all Americans who have shaped the development of this country. By publishing pathbreaking books informed by several disciplines, the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture seeks to illuminate America’s multicultural past and the ways in which it has informed the nation’s democratic experiment.
Series Editors
Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
Sponsoring Editor
Debbie Gershenowitz, Executive Editor, UNC Press
Debbie.Gershenowitz@uncpress.org

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
African American Children in the Antebellum North
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: June 2021

Behold the Land
The Black Arts Movement in the South
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: June 2021

The Colored Conventions Movement
Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman , Jim Casey , Sarah Lynn Patterson
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: March 2021

At the Threshold of Liberty
Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2021

The First Reconstruction
Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
By Van Gosse
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2021

Colored Travelers
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2021

Unceasing Militant
The Life of Mary Church Terrell
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: December 2020

Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: October 2020

Visualizing Equality
African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: September 2020

Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom
Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: September 2020