supplementary reading by the Senior
Class of the Law School of Howard University. This article has been
reprinted.

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In the January number of _The American Historical Review_ appeared a
number of documents entitled: "General M. C. Meigs on the conduct of
the Civil War." In that same number is an interesting article
entitled: "A Confederate Diplomat at the Court of Napoleon III," by L.
M. Sears.

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The Associated Publishers, a firm recently organized to publish books
bearing on the Negro will soon bring out Dr. C. G. Woodson's work on
_The Negro Church_. This is an intensive treatise of the development
of religion among the American Negroes. The leading topics discussed
are: The Attitude of the Early Missionaries toward the Negro, the Dawn
of the New Day, Pioneer Negro Preachers, The Independent Church
Movement, The Growth of the Negro Church, The Situation in the South
before the Civil War, Preachers of Versatile Genius in the North, The
Civil War and the Church, Religious Education, The Call of Politics,
The Statistics of the Negro Church and The Negro Church Socialized.

This same firm in the near future will publish also Dr. Woodson's long
delayed text book to be entitled _The Negro in Our History_. Because
of the many upheavals in the publishing world, it has been impossible
to bring out this work at an earlier date but this firm promises the
publication of it by next fall.

THE JOURNAL

OF

NEGRO HISTORY

VOL. VI--JULY, 1921--NO. 3

THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF ANCIENT NIGERIA.

The opinion of the Western World toward Africa and Africans is in the
process of a very slow, yet very tremendous, change. The distant yet
ultimate development of this process will bring about a most important
revolution in the world of modern thought. It will be marked by a
complete reversal of the prevailing present-day evaluation of the
history of a continent and of the accomplishments and possibilities of
a great people.

To the lay mind of the modern world, Africa is a gigantic jungle of
barbarians, bamboo and baboons, where Livingstone traveled, Rhodes
prospected, and Roosevelt hunted. Furthermore, it is only within the
last twenty-five years or more that even that learned group whose
profession is the exposition and interpretation of human history has
begun to modify its opinions in this connection.

An insight into the spiri