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Jason Sokol

Jason Sokol's first book, There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, was released by Alfred A. Knopf on August 22, 2006.

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Selected articles by Jason Sokol


From The Boston Globe:

"Messages of Hope" (January 20, 2008)


From The American Prospect:

"Past Imperfect" (October 25, 2006)

From the History News Network:

"The Long Road From Little Rock: 50 Years Later" (September 24, 2007)

"Epiphanies of a Massachusetts Liberal" (November 15, 2004)

"Why She Did It: Barbara Lee's Vote Against War" (September 24, 2001)


From The Cornell Daily Sun's Faculty Blog:

"The Idol of Origins and the Mets" (October 1, 2007)

"Nooses, Obama, and Us" (October 28, 2007)

From The Nation:

"Emancipation Proclamation" (October 21, 2002)

"Reparting the Waters" (May 1, 2000)

From TomPaine.com:

"Which Candidate Would Help Blacks Most?" (August 1, 2000)

"Vietnam: What Happens to the Legacy When the Baby Boomers Die?" (May 25, 2000)

"Protest All You Want: But It's No Longer the Sixties" (April 18, 2000)

"Is Black History Being Whitewashed for Black History Month?" (February 16, 2000)

Other articles and book reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, ILR Review, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, New Haven Advocate, and the Springfield Republican.

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