Watch one of our very best minds and very best story tellers talking about a book he edited on Lincoln, race and slaver. Gates also wanders out into contemporary education, Obama, his own work in tracing ancestors. About 1 hr 15.
About the Program
Author discuses his two new books on race: a comprehesive perspective on Lincoln's attitudes on slavery and race relations; and a look at how 19 prominent Black Americans reclaimed their past, using DNA and archival records to research their ancestry.
About the Author
Henry Louis Gates is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and Humanities Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of "Colored People, " coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of "Encarta Africana," and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He has received many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.
http://www.booktv.org/watch.aspx?ProgramId=HI-10221