A recent book by Chad L. Williams, "The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the first World War," examines the Great Barrington native’s enormous struggle to document Black participation in that ...

GREAT BARRINGTON--The Upper Housatonic Valley African-American Heritage Trail and MCLA welcome Patricia Sullivan, professor of history, University of South Carolina, for a talk on "W.E.B. Du Bois and ...

W.E.B DuBois started The Crisis magazine as an organ of the NAACP. At it's most popular time it took on politics, essays and the writings of creatives like poet Langston Hughes.

In ‘The Wounded World,’ Chad L. Williams recounts Du Bois’s disillusionment over the war and his struggle to publish a book about Black soldiers’ experiences At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du ...

A bronze sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois now sits on a marble bench outside the library in Great Barrington. Strategically and symbolically, organizers who brought the post Civil War scholar back to his ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: W.E.B. DuBois is a Civil Rights Leader with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Public Affairs Event. Scholar and political activist W.E.B.