In Memory of John Hope Franklin (1915-2009)

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Tributes

• NYT editorial page tribute by Brent Staples
  

• HNN History Doyen Profile
  

• David Levering Lewis on John Hope Franklin's Moral and Intellectual Poise
  

• NYT Week in Review
  

• 2 surprising stories about a great historian
  

• John Hope Franklin remembered by one of his graduate students
  

• James C. Cobb: My Heroes Haven't Always Been Cowboys
  

• Walter Dellinger in the WaPo
  

• Stan Katz tribute
  

Obituaries

• NYT
  

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  

• AP
  

• John Hope Franklin: Wa Po Review of His Memoir
  

• Charlotte Observer
  

• Duke University
  

Articles by John Hope Franklin

• By John Hope Franklin: The American Idea (article in Atlantic)
  

OAH Appearance 2007

Note: Video quality is poor.

HNN Archives

• John Hope Franklin: Dean of U.S. historians tells his story
  

• David Horowitz: Why I Am Not Celebrating John Hope Franklin's Birthday
  

• John Hope Franklin & Yu Ying-shih: Two History Scholars Are to Split $1 Million Award
  

• Ralph Luker: John Hope Franklin Endorses Obama
  

• John Hope Franklin on the Diane Rehm Show
  

• John Hope Franklin: His Vision for the New Slavery Museum
  

• John Hope Franklin says it's time for all of us to stand up
  

• John Hope Franklin: Named first Inouye chair in Hawaii
  

• John Hope Franklin: Historian criticizes Cherokee Nation for excluding slave descendants
  

• John Hope Franklin profiled in the WaPo
  

• John Hope Franklin: Feted at Duke University
  

• John Hope Franklin: Warns of bias in history
  

• John Hope Franklin: He changed how Americans view their own past (NYT)
  

• Duke U. library exhibit celebrating his life
  

• Eric Arnesen: Review of John Hope Franklin's Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin