John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work ''From Slavery to Freedom'', first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Born in Oklahoma, Franklin attended Fisk University and then Harvard University, receiving his doctorate in 1941. He was a professor at Howard University, and in 1956 was named to head the history department at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York. Recruited to the University of Chicago in 1964, he eventually led the history department and was appointed to a named chair. He then moved to Duke University in 1983, as an appointee to a named chair in history. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The militant South, 1800-1861. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956
    Format: Book


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    George Washington Williams, a biography by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985
    Format: Book


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    Ethnicity in American life by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1971
    Format: Book


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    Collecting African American art : the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    [Houston] : New Haven : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; Distributed by Yale University Press, 2009
    Format: Book


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    From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : McGraw-Hill, 2011
    9th ed.
    Format: Book


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    An illustrated history of Black Americans, by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York, Time-Life Books 1970
    Format: Book


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    Mirror to America : the autobiography of John Hope Franklin. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
    1st ed.
    Format: Book


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    Racial equality in America by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976
    Format: Book


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    From slavery to freedom : a history of Negro Americans by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : McGraw-Hill, 1993
    6th ed., 40th anniversary ed.
    Format: Book


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    The free Negro in North Carolina. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina press, 1943
    Format: Book


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    From slavery to freedom ; a history of Negro Americans. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : Knopf, 1967
    3d ed. [rev. and enl.].
    Format: Book


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    In search of the promised land : a Black family and the Old South by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
    Format: Book


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    Reconstruction after the Civil War by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994
    Second edition.
    Format: Book


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    Reconstruction: after the Civil War. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    [Chicago] University of Chicago Press 1961
    Format: Book


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    The color line : legacy for the twenty-first century by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1993
    Format: Book


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    The Emancipation proclamation. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1965
    Format: Book


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    George Washington Williams : a biography by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985
    Format: Book


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    From slavery to freedom ; a history of American Negroes. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : Knopf, 1956
    2d ed., rev. & enl.
    Format: Book


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    From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2000
    8th ed.
    Format: Book


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    From slavery to freedom ; a history of American Negroes. by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

    New York : A. A. Knopf, 1947
    [1st ed.].
    Format: Book