{"id":1991,"date":"2009-04-01T07:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:24:55","slug":"knowing-how-we-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1991","title":{"rendered":"Knowing How We Got Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/columnists\/leonard_pitts\/\">Leonard Pitts<\/a>&#8216; column in the <a href=\"http:\/\/gazettextra.com\/\">Janesville Gazette<\/a> &#8220;You can&#8217;t understand world unless you know how it was,&#8221; in which he laments that many people do not know basic history, and thus cannot put our world today into proper context and fully understand where we are as a society.<\/p>\n<p>The impetus for his column was the passing of historian <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/specialcollections\/franklin\/bio.html\">Dr. John Hope Franklin<\/a>, who wrote many books on the history of African Americans, including <em>From slavery to freedom<\/em>, which is &#8220;regarded as the seminal text in African-American studies.&#8221; The Library has copies of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=kR8H66t-hWgC&amp;pgis=1\"><em>From slavery to freedom<\/em><\/a>, including the original 1947 edition and the 6th (1988) edition (3rd-floor Main Collection, E185 .F825 1988).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/mirror.jpg\" alt=\"Mirror to America cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Pitts goes on to suggest additional reading, all of which are titles available in the Library&#8217;s 3rd-floor Main Collection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0q0PggSW6acC\"><em>Mirror to America: The autobiography of John Hope Franklin<\/em><\/a> (E175.5.F73 A3 2005)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=HT7AAAAACAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Before the Mayflower: A history of black America<\/em><\/a> (E185 .B4 1988)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wchHxFsOREcC\"><em>Slavery by another name: The re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II<\/em><\/a> (E185.2 .B545 2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2295037\"><em>This was Harlem: A cultural portrait, 1900-1950<\/em><\/a> (F128.68 .H3 A65 1982)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bi2aAAAAIAAJ&amp;pgis=1\"><em>Been in the storm so long: The aftermath of slavery<\/em><\/a> (E185.2 .L57 1980)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MX92AAAAMAAJ&amp;pgis=1\"><em>Trouble in mind: Black southerners in the age of Jim Crow<\/em><\/a> (E185.6 .L58 1998)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I read Leonard Pitts&#8216; column in the Janesville Gazette &#8220;You can&#8217;t understand world unless you know how it was,&#8221; in which he laments that many people do not know basic history, and thus cannot put our world today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[539,324,178,1826,1829,1827,231,1828,251,1782],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-african-americans","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-columnists","tag-harlem","tag-historians","tag-history","tag-jim-crow","tag-reading","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}