March 31, 2025 @ 6:30 PM

You’re invited to the March edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with Bird in Hand and The Ivy Bookstore, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.

March’s event features Dr. Martha S. Jones, and her new book THE COLOR OF TROUBLE: AN AMERICAN FAMILY MEMOIR! An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How the Word is Passed).

RSVP here!

Martha S. Jones is a cultural-legal historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University, she is a prize-winning historian of books that include Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America and Vanguard: How Black Women Overcame Barrier, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Dr. Jones has served as co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and vice-president of the Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Jones was a public interest attorney in New York City. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Martha’s next book, THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: AN AMERICAN FAMILY MEMOIR, will be available in March from Basic Books. PRE-ORDERS are available here!