The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois Available to Purchase

I am pleased that the editor of this book provided a full, ten‐page, chronology to the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, since there could be no more graphic and absorbing introduction to our subject. Born in 1868, an only child whose father abandoned the family and whose mother died when William was only 17, poverty and racial discrimination were his lot in early life. But William was a bright lad and got a grant to study at Harvard University where his teachers included William James (philosophy) and George Santayana (economics) and he became Harvard's first African American to receive a...