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December 16, 2021 (December 16, 2021)

Q&A With Brooks Blevins, Author of History of The Ozarks, Vol.3

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Brooks Blevins, author of A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways in his book. Q: Why did you […]

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April 19, 2021 (April 19, 2021)

Q&A with Candace Bailey, Author of Unbinding Gentility

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Candace Bailey, author of Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South, recently answered some questions about the inspirations behind and discoveries she made while writing her new book. […]

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August 10, 2016 (August 9, 2016)

Fannie Barrier Williams celebrated

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Progressive Era activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams was one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. A new effort to honor the woman who was a prominent spokesperson […]

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February 4, 2016 (February 4, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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The Zika virus. It’s making headlines and provoking anxieties. A disease-causing pathogen carried by Aedes mosquitoes—the culprits behind yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya, among other ills—Zika was isolated in Uganda in […]

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January 21, 2016 (January 20, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina, by Leslie A. Schwalm African American women fought bravely and tenaciously for their freedom during the […]

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January 14, 2016 (January 14, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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Drink bothered the Founding Fathers. Not on a personal level, of course. John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast and George Washington went on many a bender. […]

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August 17, 2015 (August 17, 2015)

Survey Says!: The King Is Dead

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This week marks the anniversary of the death (?) of Elvis Presley, a transformative cultural figure of the twentieth or any other century. If you have memories of that afternoon in 1977, […]

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July 6, 2015 (June 9, 2015)

Daisy Turner’s words

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Daisy Turner was a woman of many words. The storyteller and poet was a living repository of history. She related the stories of her own family, from the abduction of […]

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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 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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September 5, 2013 (September 5, 2013)

The Beautiful Music All Around Us awarded by ARSC

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Stephen Wade’s book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience has been awarded Best History in the 2013 The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) […]

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March 27, 2013

Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Book Award

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Larry Eugene Rivers’s recent book Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has received the Bronze Medal in the Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category for 2012. Published in July […]

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