Profiles in Leadership by Walter Isaacson

Corlett, Leslie King Hammond, Jae Emerling, Carla Hanzal, and Glenda Gilmore, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections (London and New York: D Giles Ltd. Norton, October, 2010), “Romare Bearden’s Mecklenburg Memories,” in Mary L.

Recent articles include “Which Southerners? Which Southern Historians? A Century of Teaching Southern History at Yale,” The Yale Review (January 2011): 56-69, and “’Am I a Screwball, or Am I a Pioneer?’: Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights Movement,” in Walter Isaacson, ed., Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness (W. She is at work on a study of the African American artist Romare Bearden and his family interpreted through his artistic work, to be published by the University of North Carolina Press. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize. Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, published in 1996, won Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A.

She is the editor of Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, was one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of 2008, and the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008. It was published as two textbooks in the spring of 2016, one on 1890 to the present, and the other on 1945 to the present. Her most recent book, These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present, coauthored with Thomas Sugrue, appeared as a trade book in October, 2015, published by W. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Van Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies.

Profiles in Leadership by Walter Isaacson