Videos

New York University photography Professor Deborah Willis looked at the lives of Black Civil War soldiers through a collection of portraits. This was a virtual event hosted by the Free Librar…

Using photographs from before the Civil War, New York University’s Deborah Willis and the University of Massachusetts' Barbara Krauthamer talk about the impact of the emancipation proclamati…

Authors, David Levering Lewis and Deborah Willis, talked about their book, "A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress". The book contains photograph…

Deborah Willis talked about her book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, published by W.W. Norton. She also responded to questions from the audience.…