John Hope Franklin

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• SOURCE: Cobbloviate Blog
  11/11/19
  

  When Southern Historians Made History Themselves

  by Jim Cobb

  At the SHA meeting 70 years ago, John Hope Franklin became the first black scholar to present a paper at the conference. 

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7-22-18
  

  Archiving While Black

  by Ashley Farmer

  More than half a century after John Hope Franklin’s bitter experience in the archives, black historians often still feel out of place

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  11-24-17
  

  Highway in Durham named for John Hope Franklin

  Franklin retired to Durham in 1980. Two years later, he became the James B. Duke Professor of History, Duke University’s highest professorship.

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• 11-5-17
  

  A Golden Age for American History Scholarship? It Was the Mid-1950s.

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  Just consider the names of historians writing then: C. Vann Woodward, Kenneth Stampp, John Hope Franklin, Thomas Bailey, Daniel Boorstin, Edmund Morgan, Robert V. Bruce, Richard Hofstadter, Edward C. Kirkland, and many more.

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• SOURCE: WUNC
  2-28-17
  

  Emotional Estate Sale At Home of Historian John Hope Franklin

  Franklin was a world-renowned scholar of African American history who died in 2009.

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  1-24-17
  

  Highway slated to be named after John Hope Franklin

  The proposal by the outgoing Obama administration has the backing of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat.

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• SOURCE: Duke Today
  11-6-15
  

  Drew Faust on John Hope Franklin and 'Historians to the Rescue'

  Historian Drew Gilpin Faust opened the Centennial Symposium honoring John Hope Franklin by praising the legacy he left for activists and scholars and for research “that rescued us from bad history.”

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• SOURCE: The Durham News
  1-26-15
  

  Duke honors historian John Hope Franklin with year-long series of events

  Duke University will hold events during the next year paying tribute to preeminent historian John Hope Franklin, who would have turned 100 years old this January.