Larry Alfonso Greene is Professor of History in the History Department at Seton Hall University, teaches in the Africana Studies Program, and co-chairs the Board of Associates at the Drew University Center for Holocaust/ Genocide Study. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Muenster conducting research in the SS Newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps. Areas of specialization are Civil War/Reconstruction Era, Harlem Renaissance, World War II, and African American History.A central theme in his research examines the self-image and goals of African Americans in the Black press and their perceptions in the white press. A few examples:“New Jersey During the Civil War and Reconstruction” in New Jersey History: A History of the Garden State.“Race in the Reich: The African American Press on Nazi Germany” in Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange.“Langston Hughes, Russia, and the African American Press” in Russian American Links.
