Race and History: Selected Essays, 19381988 by John Hope
Franklin Louisiana State University Press, 450 pp., $29.95 The
Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century by John Hope
Franklin University of Missouri Press, 87 pp., $14.95 The Facts
of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin edited
by Eric Anderson, edited by Alfred A. Moss Jr. Louisiana State
University Press, 239 pp., $14.95 (paper) John Hope Franklin,
now in his late seventies and a professor emeritus at Duke
University, is one of the most respected historians of the
United States. Indeed to judge by the numbers of honorary
degrees, presidencies of professional associations,
distinguished lectureships, and other forms of special
recognition he has received, it would be easy to conclude that
he is the most esteemed living American historian. Yet his very
substantial body of work has not visibly influenced other
scholars in his field as much as his eminence might have led one
to expect (apart, that is, from his extremely devoted doc