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June 23, 2020 (June 19, 2020)

Essential Pride Month Reading List

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This Pride Month, we invite our readers to honor the contributions of LGBTQ+ activists with this collection of some of our recent titles featuring a range of experiences within diverse […]

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June 17, 2020 (June 15, 2020)

The Spring 2020 Issue of The Callout is now available

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Being part of a large public university is a constant reminder that education is about transformation. Students are changed by their time here, by their encounters with new ideas and […]

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June 15, 2020 (April 21, 2020)

Five Things You Should Know About Florence Price

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Florence B. Price was a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. This June, […]

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June 12, 2020 (June 4, 2020)

Black Opera Awarded Irving Lowens Book Award

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We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the Society for American Music‘s Irving Lowens Book Award. From the SAM Bulletin:“Focusing on opera, […]

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June 10, 2020 (June 4, 2020)

Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize

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We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded […]

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June 8, 2020 (May 18, 2020)

Q&A with Jasmine Mitchell, Author of Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

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Jasmine Mitchell answers some questions about her new book, Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? “You look exotic, […]

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June 6, 2020 (June 4, 2020)

MHA 2020 Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to our MHA 2020 virtual exhibit! Even though we are unable to attend MHA in person, we are still excited to share with you our Mormon studies related content. […]

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June 4, 2020 (June 4, 2020)

Christine Talbot on Mormonism and Polygamy

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The following is a guest post from Christine Talbot, author of A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890. This June, we are offering a free ebook […]

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June 2, 2020 (June 1, 2020)

Get a Free Ebook of A Foreign Kingdom by Christine Talbot

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In June’s free ebook, join Christine Talbot as she explores how Mormon plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage and family structure […]

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June 1, 2020 (June 1, 2020)

All Our Trials Awarded Lambda Literary Award

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We are pleased to announce All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence by Emily L. Thuma is the winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards […]

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May 28, 2020 (May 26, 2020)

Big Berks 2020 Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to our Big Berks 2020 Virtual Exhibit! Even though we might not be able to visit with you in person, you can still step inside our virtual booth and […]

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May 27, 2020 (May 26, 2020)

Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians

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The following is a guest post by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow, co-editors of Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Non-Traditional Women Historians. Julie Gallagher is an associate professor of history […]

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