John Hope Franklin, R.I.P.

John Hope Franklin proved that a historian could move mountains. John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) was one of the most important American historians of the 20th century and one of the people I most admired. I grew up in the segregated South. Black and white Southerners alike wore our nation’s uniform. They fought and died together, …

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