Independent Historian

Hilary Mac Austin has co-edited, with Kathleen Thompson, four books: Examining the Evidence: Seven Strategies for Teaching with Primary Sources (Capstone Classroom, 2014) America’s Children: Images of Childhood from Early America to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton 2003), Children of the Depression(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), and The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). She was the photo editor of Encyclopedia of African American History, 1895-Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009); Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) and the photo researcher for A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America by Kathleen Thompson and Darlene Clark Hine (New York: Broadway Books, 1996) among others.

In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

In the article below historians Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin describe Dr. Mayme Clayton, the longtime law librarian at the University of California School of Law who in her spare time accumulated one of the largest collections of African American photographs and other memorabilia … Read MoreIn Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West