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.
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Looking for Lincoln Part 1 |
2009 |
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Looking for Lincoln Part 2 |
2009 |
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Part 1, Hour 1 |
2019 |
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Part 1, Hour 2 |
2019 |
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Part 2, Hour 1 |
2019 |
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Part 2, Hour 2 |
2019 |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The Black Atlantic (1500-1800) |
2013 |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The Age of Slavery (1800-1860) |
2013 |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Into the Fire (1861-1896) |
2013 |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940) |
2013 |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Rise! (1940-1968) |
2013 |
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross A More Perfect Union (1968-2013) |
2013 |
| Series | Finding Your Roots | 2012 |
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PBS Specials Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Uncovering America |
2019 |
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Natasha Lyonne, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dusty Slay |
2024 |
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Shailene Woodley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kenice Mobley |
2021 |
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The Colbert Report Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
2008 |
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Great Railway Journeys Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde |
1996 |
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The Daily Show Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
2017 |
