About the Author

Harvard Sitkoff, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.

Reviews

"Whether analyzing the limitations of New Deal liberalism or the fusion of pragmatism and principle that shaped the racially progressive politics of Wendell Wilkie, Sitkoff conveys his arguments throughout with admirable clarity and concision." -- Louisiana History

" Toward Freedom Land continues Sitkoff's career-long quest to uproot some of the most persistent assumptions about the civil rights movement. At the same time, while he may 'aim to rile' as much as ever, the body of scholarship represented in these essays will also ground young scholars as they grapple with the movement's legacies and their own place within a continually controversial civil rights literature." -- Journal of Southern Religion

" Toward Freedom Land is a worthy contribution to the literature on the long struggle for racial justice." -- Anne Marie Mingo, Journal of African American History

" Toward Freedom Land is an excellent book that would complement the studies of any scholar of African American or racial history." -- North Carolina Historical Review

"Each essay is a delight to read, with the lucid prose, careful research, and insightful analysis that make Sitkoff the excellent historian he is." -- The Historian

"Harvard Sitkoff was writing about the 'long civil rights movement' before it was cool to do so.... This collection is a worthy testament to a long career of arguing and riling." -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"In Toward Freedom Land, prominent historian Harvard Sitkoff uses his own essays over the last decades of the 20th century to trace the Black Americans' struggle for equality. Not only odes the author reexamine his writings, he also reflects on the usage of criticism of his scholarship... While this collection is meaningful to those who have previously read sitkoff's commentaries, it also provides an interesting retrospective on a turbulent century." -- Catholic Library World

"Over the past five decades, Harvard Sitkoff has established himself as one of the foremost voices on the black freedom struggle in the United States. Toward Freedom Land... continues that trend." -- Florida Historical Quarterly

"Sitkoff's work is a reminder of the hope and limitations of the black freedom struggle of the twentieth century." -- H-Net Reviews

"This collection makes a number of Sitkoff's important essays available in one place and provides useful insight into an influential historian's thinking on an important subject." -- Journal of Southern History

"This collection provides new ways to study the role of gender in the post-Civil War South." -- Southern Historian