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History and Current Events January 2021
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Carving Out a Humanity: Race, Rights, and Redemption
by Janet Dewart Bell
Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the prestigious Derrick Ball Lecture Series, preeminent civil rights attorneys and scholars of the past quarter century discuss the faces of law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium.
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Black Futures
by Kimberly Drew
A curated collection of essays, photography, memes, recipes, poems and dialogues explores what it means to be Black and alive in today’s world from the perspectives of academics, activists and other prominent cultural and social-media influencers.
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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
by Jeffrey H. Jackson
Starring: gender-bending French artists (and longtime couple) Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who parlayed their creative talents into “artistic acts of psychological warfare” in Nazi-occupied Jersey.
How they did it: Schwob and Malherbe secretly distributed subversive notes, photos, and news in an effort to demoralize German soldiers.
Try this next: The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler.
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| Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen... by Rachel Maddow and Michael YarvitzStarring: disgraced vice president Spiro Agnew, who resigned in 1973 after he was caught committing tax fraud and running a bribery and extortion ring in his office.
Why you might like it: This well-researched examination of a lesser-known political scandal, which happened concurrently (but unrelatedly) with Watergate, offers striking parallels to current events.
Media buzz: Bag Man is an engaging expansion of the authors' podcast of the same name, which was nominated for a Peabody Award in 2018. |
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Historic Tales of Inventions |
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Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
by Meredith F. Small
Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural historyto inspire a new generation of innovators.
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