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Timothy B. Tyson

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Timothy B. Tyson is a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina. His 2017 book "The Blood of Emmett Till" won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and his 2004 book "Blood Done Sign My Name" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Articles by Timothy B. Tyson

The Ledger and the Chain by Joshua D. Rothman

REVIEW: The brilliance of Rothman's 'The Ledger and the Chain'

By Timothy B. Tyson

August 29, 2022 - Timothy B. Tyson, a historian of the South, calls Joshua D. Rothman's "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" one of the best history books he's ever read.

VOICES: The future of North Carolina's past

By Timothy B. Tyson

August 7, 2015 - The notion that the Confederacy represents white North Carolina's heritage is not historical but instead political.

He had to be carefully taught

By Timothy B. Tyson

June 22, 2015 - Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof embraced the flags of white-supremacist regimes that did not exist in his lifetime. This is no ordinary racial bias: Someone had to teach him these elaborated historical traditions.