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Additional Reading
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 (1993); and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 (2000), are together a comprehensive biography. These two volumes are condensed into one and updated in David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (2009). Studies of Du Bois’s life and works include Arnold Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois (1976, reissued 1990); Manning Marable, W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat, new updated ed. (2005); Keith E. Byerman, Seizing the Word: History, Art, and Self in the Work of W.E.B. Du Bois (1994); Shamoon Zamir, Dark Voices: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888–1903 (1995); Robert Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (2009); Stephanie J. Shaw, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Black Folk (2013); and Gary Dorrien, The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel (2015). Dolan Hubbard (ed.), The Souls of Black Folk: One Hundred Years Later (2003); and Shamoon Zamir (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois (2008), are collections of essays.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - W.E.B. Du Bois. | Oct 17, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - W. E. B. Du Bois. | Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| Added top questions and media. | Jan 30, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Ghanas role in honouring US civil rights hero WEB Du Bois. | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Africana - W. E. B Du Bois. | Jun 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - William Edward Burghardt DuBois Historian Social Critic, Activist. | Dec 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American National Biography - W.E.B. Du Bois. | Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - W. E. B. Du Bois (c. 1868-1963). | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 28, 2024 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Dec 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: 1914-1918 online - International Encyclopedia of the First World War - W.E.B. Du Bois. | Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - W.E.B. DuBois. | May 17, 2023 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard University - Hutchins Center for African and African American Research - W. E. B. Du Bois. | Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Added cross reference to “The Souls of Black Folk” | Mar 29, 2023 | ||
| Link added. | Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| Link added. | Jan 11, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - W.E.B. Du Bois. | Nov 02, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 23, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. | Jul 24, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 07, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 19, 2017 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 19, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Oct 20, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of W.E.B. Du Bois. | Apr 26, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of W.E.B. Du Bois. | Apr 26, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of William Edward Burghardt DuBois. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mathematics Department at University at Buffalo - Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. | May 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - College of Education and Human Ecology - Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. | May 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of W.E.B. DuBois. | May 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. | May 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Studies at The University of Virginia - Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. | May 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. | May 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - W.E.B. Du Bois. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - William Du Bois. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia. | Jun 10, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of W. E. B. DuBois. | Apr 13, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois. | Jul 27, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: African National Congress - World Leaders Against Apartheid. | Jul 12, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 17, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |