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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2020
  

  Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon

  Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.

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• SOURCE: Crain's Cleveland Business
  3/30/2020
  

  And The Winners of the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are ...

  Henry Louis Gates Jr., who chairs the Anisfield-Wolf jury, said in a statement that the winners "bring us fresh insights on race and diversity."

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/24/2020
  

  The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations

  The fight for Japanese American reparations came with significant resistance—not just from the American public at large, but from the Japanese American community itself, as John Tateishi writes in his new book. 

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• SOURCE: The Paris Review
  3/23/2020
  

  A Brief History of Word Games

  by Adrienne Raphel

  When I began to research the history of crosswords for my recent book on the subject, I was sort of shocked to discover that they weren’t invented until 1913.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/23/2020
  

  How Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American Democracy

  by Casey Cep

  In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith established a theocracy, ran for President, and tested the limits of religious freedom.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/24/2020
  

  The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords' Revolution

  by Ed Morales

  In her new book historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords' influence as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2020
  

  Bancroft Prize Goes to Books on Emancipation and Urban Renewal

  The scholars Joseph P. Reidy and Lizabeth Cohen have won the prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/17/2020
  

  Here’s Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans

  by Peter Sagal

  Like a good crossword, her book challenges us to back away from our assumptions, allows us to think differently and apply ourselves again.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/27/2020
  

  He Wrote the Book on Boomers, and He Thinks the Gen Z Rap Against Them Isn’t Quite OK

  “The Greater Generation” was a conscious retort to decades of boomer bashing. “Hating boomers,” Steinhorn recalls, “had become the last acceptable prejudice.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/14/2020
  

  A History Book that Isn't: Finding a Way to Teach Racism to a New Generation

  Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds's new book is Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. Right from its first few pages the authors promise that "this is not a history book."

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  3/4/2020
  

  Historian Greg Grandin’s Frontier Thesis and the Ecological Imagination

  by Anthony Chaney

  In his new book, Grandin traces the idea of limitless expansion in American history, and he suggests that the era of that ideology has ended.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth Tackles Frederick Jackson Turner

  by James Thornton Harris

  In attempting to debunk one myth about the American frontier, Grandin is in danger of creating a new one. 

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  2/23/20
  

  Behind Dover Publications’ eclectic 10,000-title catalog lies a remarkable story of 20th century innovation

  by Karin Falcone Krieger

  Started by Heyward and Blanche Cirker in their apartment in post-war Queens, Dover Publications produced 10,000 book titles over the course of 80 years. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/25/20
  

  How Churchill Brought Britain Back From the Brink: Erik Larson's Book Reviewed in NY Times

  A review of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  2/21/20
  

  Gordon Wood Reviews Mary Beth Norton's ‘1774’ for the Wall Street Journal

  by Gordon S. Wood

  What shocked colonists like George Washington into war? Britain’s imperious actions in Boston.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/20/20
  

  Black Perspectives Reviews Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

  by Brandon K. Winford

  In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that centers on Black women in the largely male-dominated banking sector between the 1860s and 1930s.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/20/20
  

  H.R. McMaster book `Battlegrounds’ coming out in April

  In announcing the release date Thursday, HarperCollins called “Battlegrounds” a “groundbreaking reassessment of America’s place in the world..."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/23/20
  

  Historian Edward Achorn Interviewed by the NY Times About His Book Every Drop of Blood

  24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2/19/20
  

  Trump and the Christians: Evangelical historian John Fea on decoding the great paradox

  Historian and author of "Believe Me" on his struggle to reach the embattled evangelicals who oppose Trump.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/14/20
  

  How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian

  The New York Times reviews THE PROFESSOR AND THE PARSON: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking by Adam Sisman.