Margaret Washington’s book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was selected as winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history. […]
Bookslut on “The Genius and the Goddess”
Elizabeth Bachner’s column in the March issue of Bookslut discusses Jeffrey Meyers’s new book The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. “I went through a phase where I read […]
Google is also doing my taxes
Simon Mackie at the New York Times shares his top ten Google tricks, which include currency conversion, area-code lookup, and calculation (which makes me worry about how many first-graders are […]
“George Gershwin” reviewed in the TLS
The March 26, 2010, issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes a laudatory review of Walter Rimler’s recent book George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “Compact in length and voluminous in […]
“Staley” wins award
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking, has tied for Best Book related to the field of Labor Studies published in […]
Steven Ashby and C.J. Hawking in DC
On Tuesday April 6, 2010, Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking will discuss their recent book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement at Busboys & Poets (5th […]
Spring 2010 APQ
The April issue of American Philosophical Quarterly ships this week, and as usual the contents list is top shelf: Clare Batty: “Scents and Sensibilia” Andrew Cullison: “Two Solutions to the […]
“The last song played was provided for free by the record company, which I also met for lunch…”
In October of 2009 I linked to a Galley Cat story about a new FTC rule that required book bloggers to disclose that reviewed books were provided for free by a publisher. In […]
Light from the Prince of Darkness by David C. Dougherty
Of the many interviews that constituted the most exciting research for Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin, none came close to a conversation with Robert Novak (1931-2009) […]
“African or American?” wins award
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 by Leslie M. Alexander, has been awarded the Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the […]
Mary Beth Raycraft on (blog) tour
Mary Beth Raycraft, translator of the new book A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World’s Columbian Exposition, will be on cybertour beginning this week: April 1-2 — Exurbanis April […]
“Freeing Charles” in The Wall Street Journal
The March 26, 2010, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a review of the new University of Illinois Press book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on […]