Our hearts are warmed by the outpouring of remembrances for John Hope Franklin. We've been blogging about it the past couple of days (here and here), but there's no letting up yet. In a New York Times editorial, Brent Staples cites John Hope's "groundbreaking work on free Negroes in antebellum North Carolina" (that would be JHF's first book, The Free Negro in North Carolina) and wishes he could have just one more conversation with the historian. President Obama offered a statement. So did Bill Clinton, who had worked with JHF on the president's committee on...