The Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, Chad L. Williams is also the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and co-editor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence and Major Problems in African American History. The New York Times calls his new book, The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War, “illuminating…deeply researched, crisply written…[it] is a fitting coda to Du Bois’s unfinished history of Black Americans and the First World War.” Williams discussed The Wounded World with fellow BIO member Sonja Williams late last month.

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