Mia Bay is an American historian serving as the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. She previously served as the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies American and African-American intellectual and cultural history and is the author of, among others, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells.

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
2014
ISBN 9780143106821Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 2: Since 1865
2012
ISBN 9780312648848Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885
2012
ISBN 9780312648831