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2021-11-22

  Lisa Napoli, Ellen Clegg, & Margaret Low, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Founding Mothers of NPR"

In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woma... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-11-22

  Peter S. Canellos and Farah Stockman, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan"

They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, it was John Marshall Harlan’s words that helped end segregation, and gave us our civil rights and ... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-11-22

  Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of Ameri... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-07-09

  Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"

When we talk about patriotism in America, we tend to mean one form: the version captured in shared celebrations like the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance. But as Ben Railton argues, that celebratory patriotism is just one of four distinct f... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-07-02

  Akhil Reed Amar, "The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840"

When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and states... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-06-18

  Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their righ... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-06-18

  Robert Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter"

When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long acc... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-06-18

  Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"

Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production. With new quantitative evidence for more than five hundred thous... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-05-21

  Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"

Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying army that attempted to crush the Revolutionary War. There was more to these soldiers than their red uniforms, but the individuals who formed the ranks are seldom described in any detail in ... 		  Boston Athenæum author
2021-05-21

  Boston Art Song Society, "Art Songs of Black American Composers"

Guest baritone Emery Stephens and pianist Ann Schaefer will perform a recital of works by African American composers. This program will include an open forum discussion about African American experiences in classical music. Dr. Stephens’ Singing Down t... 		  Boston Athenæum author