The Stuff of History Will Be Your Guide: On the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Research Article| January 01 2018 The Stuff of History Will Be Your Guide: On the New National Museum of African American History and Culture Eric Arnesen Eric Arnesen Eric Arnesen is the James R. Hoffa Professor of History and Vice Dean for Faculty at The George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (Harvard University Press, 2001), Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923 (Oxford University Press, 1991), and Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martins, 2002) and the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History (Routledge, 2006). The co-chair of the Washington History Seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, he is currently completing a biography of A. Philip Randolph. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (2): 71–81. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.2.0071 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Arnesen; The Stuff of History Will Be Your Guide: On the New National Museum of African American History and Culture. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (2): 71–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.2.0071 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Museum Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.