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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.


Aliases
  • Skip Gates
English Português - Brasil

13th

2016
as Himself

Ralph Ellison: An American Journey

2002
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller

2017
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Color Adjustment

1992
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A Place of Our Own

2004
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Hip-Hop Fellow

2014
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Writer

Episode Looking for Lincoln
Part 1
2009
Episode Looking for Lincoln
Part 2
2009
Episode Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Part 1, Hour 1
2019
Episode Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Part 1, Hour 2
2019
Episode Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Part 2, Hour 1
2019
Episode Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Part 2, Hour 2
2019
Episode The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
2013
Episode The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
The Age of Slavery (1800-1860)
2013
Episode The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Into the Fire (1861-1896)
2013
Episode The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940)
2013
Episode The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Rise! (1940-1968)
2013
Episode The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
A More Perfect Union (1968-2013)
2013

Executive Producer

Series Finding Your Roots 2012

Guest Star

Episode PBS Specials
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Uncovering America
2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Natasha Lyonne, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dusty Slay
2024
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Shailene Woodley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kenice Mobley
2021
Episode The Colbert Report
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2008
Episode Great Railway Journeys
Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde
1996
Episode The Daily Show
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2017