From the publisher: This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a 19th-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, a suffragist and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America. Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters, newspaper articles, organizational records and never-before-published handwritten notes… Continue reading »
From the publisher: The October 1973 Middle East War transformed the region’s politics and had a huge impact on the international political system as a whole. Arguments about the causes, effects and meaning of the war and about why it ran its course the way it did have played a… Continue reading »
From the publisher: This extraordinary wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during World War II. Long hidden, the diary was written by Lucien Dreyfus, a native of Alsace who was a teacher at the most prestigious… Continue reading »
From the publisher: In the stunning and imaginative NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators From Around the World, we are presented with visions, invocations, foretellings and bold harbingers. NOMBONO, drawing from the Zulu word for “visionary,” brings together mystical dreams and possibilities that are at times both… Continue reading »
Heather Catto Kohout ’81 died in October 2014. This book is part of the Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation. From the publisher: The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by… Continue reading »
Edited by Williams alumna Jenny Minton Quigley ’93, whose father, the late Walter Minton ’45, first published Lolita in the U.S. in 1958 as president of G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Includes an essay by Jim Shepard, English professor. From the publisher: A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won. Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links… Continue reading »
Anthony Harkins ’86, Meredith McCarroll, editors. West Virginia University Press, February 2019. Available on Amazon. J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly… Continue reading »
Edited by Walter Lehmann ’85. Independently published, February 2019. Available on Amazon. From the Anzio beachhead to the roof top of the US Embassy in Saigon, this expansive memoir recounts the wide-ranging life of a US foreign service officer who had a front row seat in… Continue reading »
Edited by Elizabeth Allison ’91, et al. Routledge, October 2018. This book examines and builds upon Carolyn Merchant’s decades-long legacy of innovative environmental thought and her critical responses to modern mechanistic and patriarchal conceptions of nature and women as well as her systematic taxonomies of environmental thought and action. Seventeen… Continue reading »
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