Historian Martha S. Jones has won accolades for her wide-ranging examinations of the lives of African American women and how they've fought for and won a distinctive place in the country's history.

"THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: AN AMERICAN FAMILY MEMOIR" by Martha S. Jones (Basic Books, 336 pages, $30). Long before Martha S. Jones wrote "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir," she was a young ...

“I discovered my faith in the capacity of words to help me know myself and the people who made me.” “This book is a dialogue with my family. It is also a dialogue with those who write about the past ...

Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor in the Department of History and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute, received a fellowship in the field of U.S. history. A writer, ...

Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, as well as president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is ...