26 Facts About Herbert Aptheker

Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist.

Herbert Aptheker wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African-American history and general US history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts, a classic in the field.

Herbert Aptheker compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People.

Herbert Aptheker was the literary executor for W E B Du Bois.

Herbert Aptheker was blacklisted in academia during the 1950s because of his Communist Party membership.

Herbert Aptheker succeeded V J Jerome in 1955 as editor of Political Affairs, a communist theory magazine.

Herbert Aptheker was born in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest child of a wealthy Jewish family.

Herbert Aptheker graduated from high school in the spring of 1933, during the Great Depression.

Herbert Aptheker began reading the Communist Party's daily newspaper, The Daily Worker, at this time as well as the party's literary-artistic monthly, The New Masses, although he did not yet become a member of the party.

At Columbia, Herbert Aptheker continued to engage in the anti-war movement, both through the NSL and the American League Against War and Fascism, a broader mass organization of the Communist Party during its Popular Front period.

Herbert Aptheker earned his Master's degree from Columbia in 1937 and a Ph.

Herbert Aptheker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in sociology in 1945.

In 1942 Herbert Aptheker married Fay Philippa Herbert Aptheker, a first cousin who was a native of Brooklyn.

Herbert Aptheker participated in Operation Overlord, the invasion of northern France; by 1945 he had been promoted to the rank of Major in the artillery.

Herbert Aptheker's master's thesis, a study of Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia in 1831, laid the groundwork for his future work on the history of American slave revolts.

Herbert Aptheker asserted Turner's heroism, demonstrating how his rebellion was rooted in resistance to the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system.

Herbert Aptheker set forth historiographical arguments, challenging some conservative histories, most notably the perspective in the writings of Georgia-born historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, who was considered part of the Dunning School at Columbia University.

Herbert Aptheker was unable to obtain an appointment as a university lecturer for a decade.

Herbert Aptheker served on the National Committee of the CPUSA from 1957 to 1991.

From 1969 to 1973, Herbert Aptheker taught a full-year course annually in Afro-American History at Bryn Mawr College.

Herbert Aptheker died at age 87 on March 17,2003, in Mountain View, California.

Bettina Herbert Aptheker is a professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Herbert Aptheker sought counseling for her dissociation and recovered memory.

Herbert Aptheker wrote that she and her father reconciled before his death in 2003.

Herbert Aptheker's assertion caused great controversy among historians and activists.

Herbert Aptheker wrote that he had interviewed Kate Miller, who had been present during Bettina Aptheker's 1999 conversation with her father about the abuse, and confirmed her account.