Explore a curated selection of digital resources from our online exhibition, Chez Baldwin to discover more about the life and legacy of James Baldwin.
Books, Articles, Essays, Interviews, and Speeches
- Baldwin, James, “Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown,” (PDF) Notes on a Native Son, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).
- Baldwin, James, “History is a Weapon,” Mademoiselle, (February 1, 1960).
- Baldwin, James, “How Can we get the Black People to Cool It?,” Esquire, (July 1, 1968).
- Baldwin, James, “Sitting in the House,” (PDF) Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son, (Cleveland: Dial Press, 1961).
- Baldwin, James, “The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston,” Nugget, (February 1963).
- Baldwin, James, “The Price May be Too High,” The New York Times, (February 2, 1969).
- Barth, Grace, Laura Davis, Amanda Mita,“Digital Exhibitions: Concepts and Practices,” (PDF) Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Technical Leaflet Series, No. 12, (2018).
- Buccola, Nicholas, The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019).
- Elkoff, Marvin, “Everybody Knows His Name,” Esquire, (August 1, 1964).
- FBI, “File on James Baldwin,” (1963-1971).
- Fields, Kiah, “Today in Hip Hop History: Celebrating the Life and James Baldwin, Hip Hop’s Unsung Innovator,” The Source, (August 2, 2016).
- Gibson, Samantha, “Primary Source Sets: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin,” 2016, Digital Public Library of America.
- Miller, James. “What Does It Mean to Be an American? The Dialectics of Self-Discovery in Baldwin’s ‘Paris Essays’ (1950-1961).” Journal of American Studies Vol. 42, No. 1 (2008) p 51-66.
- Morrison, Toni, editor, James Baldwin: Collected Essays, (New York: Library of America, 1998).
- Morrison, Toni, editor, James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories, (New York: Library of America, 1998).
- New York Public Library, “Playwright Lecture Series, 1951-1960,” Sound Recording, Archive.
- University of Chicago Library, “James Baldwin: Among the Philosophers,” Exhibition, 2017.
- Waxman, Olivia B., “Is If Beale Street Could Talk Based on a True Story? The Answer is Complicated,” Time Magazine, (February 22, 2019).
- Winter, Richard, “On the Horizon,” Commentary Magazine, (January 1955).
Videos and Recordings
- Baldwin, James, Little Man, Little Man (YouTube), (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2018).
- Blint, Rich, “The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on American Cinema,” (YouTube) Franke Lectures in the Humanities: James Baldwin American Scene, Yale University, (October 18, 2016)
- Cavett, Dick, “Clips from Interview with James Baldwin,” (YouTube) The Dick Cavett Show, ABC, 1968
- Clark, Kenneth, “A Conversation With James Baldwin” (June 24, 1963), WGBH Media Library & Archives
- Cohen, Nathan, “Author James Baldwin on Being Black in America,” Encounter, CBC, December 11, 1960.
- Mavis, Nicholson, “Interview with James Baldwin,” Mavis on Four, Thames Television, February 12, 1987
- Moore, Richard O., director, Take This Hammer, (1964)
- PBS, “James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket,” (August 23, 2013)
- President John F. Kennedy, “Civil Rights Address,” (YouTube) (1963)
- U.S. Information Agency, “Hollywood Roundtable—Civil Rights,” (YouTube) ca. 1963, National Archives
- Warren, Robert Penn, “Oral Histories: James Baldwin and Vernon Jordan,” C-SPAN, (ca. 1965)
- “Some Days,” (YouTube) Audra McDonald performs “Some Days” (music by Steven Marzullo; text by James Baldwin) from her album Go Back Home, Nonesuch Records © 2013 WMG
- “Twenty Audio Recordings of James Baldwin Interviews and Speeches, 1963-1986” Internet Archives.