Donald Yacovone

Donald Yacovone is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History.^[1]. He was born on February 25, 1952 in Hartford, Connecticut to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone.^[2] He is the research manager at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute^[3] and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.^[4] Yacovone has written for the Chronicle of Higher Education on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.^[5] In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross^[6] with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book that was later made into a television series hosted by Gates Jr.^[7] The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.^[8][9][10]

Education

Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1977 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1984^[11]

Bibliography

• Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series) - February, 2004^[12]
• Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871^[13]

As Editor

• Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past - November, 2016^[14]

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