William L. Fox is president emeritus of St. Lawrence University. His previous books include Lodge of the Double-Headed Eagle: Two Centuries of Scottish Rite Freemasonry and Valley of the Craftsmen. He is the biographer of the twentieth century Harvard theologian and longest-serving dean of the Harvard Divinity School, Willard L. Sperry.

“Envoy to the Archives will make a major contribution and will open new avenues of research focused on behind-the-scenes history. It will interest public historians, scholars and students in library and information science, and those scholars in history and political science whose work is made possible by the collections that Fisher created.”—Cheryl Knott, author of Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Appalachian Antecedents (1850–65)2. Northern Beginnings (1866–80)3. Home Ground (1881–1906)4. Vocational Trials (1907–18)5. African Oneness (1919–23)6. New Directions (1924–29)7. Primary Sources (1930–32)8. Du Bois Returns (1933–39)9. Magnificent Distances (1940–45)10. Quiet Eyes (1946–49)11. London Restoration (1949–52)12. Constructing Waymarks (1953–75)EpilogueNotesIndex

William L. Fox is president emeritus of St. Lawrence University. His previous books include Lodge of the Double-Headed Eagle: Two Centuries of Scottish Rite Freemasonry and Valley of the Craftsmen. He is the biographer of the twentieth century Harvard theologian and longest-serving dean of the Harvard Divinity School, Willard L. Sperry.

“Envoy to the Archives will make a major contribution and will open new avenues of research focused on behind-the-scenes history. It will interest public historians, scholars and students in library and information science, and those scholars in history and political science whose work is made possible by the collections that Fisher created.”—Cheryl Knott, author of Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Appalachian Antecedents (1850–65)2. Northern Beginnings (1866–80)3. Home Ground (1881–1906)4. Vocational Trials (1907–18)5. African Oneness (1919–23)6. New Directions (1924–29)7. Primary Sources (1930–32)8. Du Bois Returns (1933–39)9. Magnificent Distances (1940–45)10. Quiet Eyes (1946–49)11. London Restoration (1949–52)12. Constructing Waymarks (1953–75)EpilogueNotesIndex

William L. Fox is president emeritus of St. Lawrence University. His previous books include Lodge of the Double-Headed Eagle: Two Centuries of Scottish Rite Freemasonry and Valley of the Craftsmen. He is the biographer of the twentieth century Harvard theologian and longest-serving dean of the Harvard Divinity School, Willard L. Sperry.

“Envoy to the Archives will make a major contribution and will open new avenues of research focused on behind-the-scenes history. It will interest public historians, scholars and students in library and information science, and those scholars in history and political science whose work is made possible by the collections that Fisher created.”—Cheryl Knott, author of Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

• IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Appalachian Antecedents (1850–65)2. Northern Beginnings (1866–80)3. Home Ground (1881–1906)4. Vocational Trials (1907–18)5. African Oneness (1919–23)6. New Directions (1924–29)7. Primary Sources (1930–32)8. Du Bois Returns (1933–39)9. Magnificent Distances (1940–45)10. Quiet Eyes (1946–49)11. London Restoration (1949–52)12. Constructing Waymarks (1953–75)EpilogueNotesIndex