Today’s discussion is with Martha Jones, who is Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She has written extensively about Atlantic world history, African American cultural and political history, and race and citizenship. She is the author of a number of books, including Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, and All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900. In this conversation, we discuss the place of history in Black Studies, the emerging importance of memoir work in the field, and the significance of her new work The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.