In 1991, Franklin’s students honored him with a festschrift The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin (edited by Eric Anderson & Alfred A.

: Rebels on the Plantation, John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1997, 2000.

My Life and an Era: the Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin, edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin.

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

Racial Equality in America, by John Hope Franklin.Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c1993. The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century, John Hope Franklin.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1991. The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin, edited by Eric Anderson & Alfred A.Race and History: Selected Essays 1938-1988, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1989.George Washington Williams: a Biography, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985 Reprint, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1982. Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1976. A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1976.

Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for Policy Study, c1974. The Historian and Public Policy, by John Hope Franklin.The Negro in Twentieth Century America: A Reader on the Struggle for Civil Rights, by John Hope Franklin & Isidore Starr.Caughey, John Hope Franklin and Ernest R. Land of the free a history of the United States, by John W.Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956 1st Illinois pbk.

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, 1st ed.

Ayers, Civil War recruiter ed., with introd., by John Franklin.

The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790–1860, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943, 1995.

In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. More than three million copies have been sold. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated.

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915March 25, 2009) was an American historian of United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.

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