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April 4, 2014

Living with Lynching on C-SPAN’s BookTV

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On Friday, March 14, 2014, Koritha Mitchell, author of  Living with Lynching:  African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, spoke at the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. At […]

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March 28, 2014 (March 27, 2014)

Q&A with Baseball on Trial author Nathaniel Grow

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Nathaniel Grow is an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He answered some questions about his new book Baseball on Trial: The Origin of […]

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March 27, 2014

Who is Anna Howard Shaw?

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Anna Howard Shaw was a suffrage leader, an ordained minister, a physician and “an outrageous woman for her generation.” Trisha Franzen, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Albion College […]

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March 24, 2014 (March 12, 2014)

Q&A with Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad author Cheryl LaRoche

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Cheryl Janifer LaRoche is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her book Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of […]

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March 18, 2014 (March 17, 2014)

Q&A with Loyalty and Liberty author Alex Goodall

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Alex Goodall is a lecturer in modern history at the University of York, where he specializes in the history of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary politics in the Americas. He answered some questions […]

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March 17, 2014

Living with Lynching author recognized by Congress

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On Friday, March 14, 2014, Koritha Mitchell, author of Living with Lynching:  African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, spoke at the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. […]

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March 12, 2014 (March 12, 2014)

The 100 year legacy of Anna Howard Shaw

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Spotlight on Women’s History Month: Trisha Franzen, author of Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage writes about this feminist pioneer: It takes a lot of chutzpah for an […]

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March 7, 2014 (March 5, 2014)

Living with Lynching author to speak at Library of Congress

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How did African Americans survive the period between 1890 and 1930 when mobs lynched members of their communities and proudly circulated pictures of the mutilated corpses?  How did African Americans […]

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March 5, 2014 (March 4, 2014)

Q&A with the editors of Gendered Resistance

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Delores M. Walters is a cultural anthropologist who directs the Southern Rhode Island Area Health Education Center at the University of Rhode Island. The Center aims to alleviate health disparities […]

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January 22, 2014 (January 17, 2014)

How the Michigan Avenue bridge changed Chicago

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It would be hard for any visitors or residents of modern-day Chicago to think of Michigan Avenue as a “quiet, tree-lined residential street.”  Yet, Patrick T. McBriarty, author of Chicago […]

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January 20, 2014 (January 17, 2014)

David Levering Lewis on the Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy

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Fifty years after the historic March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, many are reflecting on the King legacy. David Levering Lewis writes in […]

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January 17, 2014 (January 17, 2014)

Q&A with A Foreign Kingdom author Christine Talbot

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Christine Talbot is an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She answered our questions about her UIP book A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political […]

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