Introduction : a biographical sketch / Herbert Shapiro
An appreciation / Clayborne Carson
Negro history : its lessons for our time
Maroons within the present limits of the United States
The Negro in the abolitionist movement
Militant abolitionism
Class conflicts in the South
1850-60
Notes from Negro history : the struggle inside the ranks
The Negro woman
The American Civil War : a centenary article
Black-White unity : a basic theme and need in United States history
Mississippi Reconstruction and the Negro leader, Charles Caldwell
Literacy : the Negro and World War II
The Negro people in America : a critique of Gunnar Myrdal's "An American dilemma"
Introduction to "The suppression of the African slave trade"
Personal reflections on W.E.B. DuBois : the person, scholar, and activist / Herbert and Fay Aptheker
Epilogue: The historical scholarship of Herbert Aptheker / Eric Foner, Jesse Lemisch, and Manning Marable.
Herbert Aptheker on race and democracy : a reader by Herbert Aptheker. ISBN 9780252030291. Published by University of Illinois Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.