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Craig Steven Wilder

Biography

Craig Steven Wilder

Craig Steven Wilder is professor of American history at MIT, and has taught at Williams College and Dartmouth College. Wilder grew in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and received his PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of A COVENANT WITH COLOR and IN THE COMPANY OF BLACK MEN.

Craig Steven Wilder

Books by Craig Steven Wilder

Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
by Craig Steven Wilder - History, Nonfiction

A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery --- setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s troubling past was far from unique. In EBONY AND IVY, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy.