Oscar Hammerstein II: Works Well With Others
February 3, 2023
Laurie Winer— I had gotten my Library of Congress ID card, but I did not have an appointment with anyone in particular at the Music Division, the large research room… READ MORE
February 3, 2023
Laurie Winer— I had gotten my Library of Congress ID card, but I did not have an appointment with anyone in particular at the Music Division, the large research room… READ MORE
February 1, 2023
Mari N. Crabtree— The downpour came suddenly, and it was loud. Hours of driving through steady rain had lulled me into believing that the remnants of the most recent hurricane… READ MORE
January 31, 2023
Benjamin L. Carp— When you write a book, you have to promote it. When you promote a book, they ask you to pitch ideas to news outlets. When you pitch… READ MORE
January 24, 2023
In Roe: The History of a National Obsession, the leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history. In this… READ MORE
January 17, 2023
Mindell Dubansky — Who in my field had received the attention they deserve; and whose artistic contributions might disappear from the history of the book in the near future? How… READ MORE
December 13, 2022
Thomas S. Kidd— “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past,” Jefferson told Adams in 1816. One such dream was his university. Like his… READ MORE
November 29, 2022
Sarah Louise Cowan — In 1993, artist and art historian Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis called for a “Black feminist art history discourse” that would “prioritize the lives and concerns of… READ MORE
November 15, 2022
Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination exposes how Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy. In what might be… READ MORE
July 21, 2022
Philip J. Deloria— In conjunction with Indian removal, popular American imagery began to play on earlier symbolic linkages between Indians and the past, and these images eventually produced the full-blown… READ MORE
December 8, 2021
Paul Freedman— When I was asked to consider writing Why Food Matters, I was told that this was not supposed to be an introduction to the topic of food, but… READ MORE