Chad Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World
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In this episode, Andrew talks to Chad Williams, the author of The Wounded World, about W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World.
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Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and the coeditor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. His writings and op-eds have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, and The Conversation. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts
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