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Call for Articles: Oh, the Humanities!, published by The Third Chapter Project, is looking for your articles, stories, essays, opinions and reviews, on diverse topics in humanities & social sciences, up to 2,000 words. Please share with your networks: linkedin.com/posts/oh-the-hu…
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Register for a webinar on The Finances of Open Access Book Publishing: A @Lever_Press Case Study, Tuesday, September 3rd at 2 pm (US Eastern Time), with presenters @curtisbrundy , Anne Houston and @doc_chocula : leverpress.org/news/2024-08-…
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Program information for the Hip Hop Hurston, February 15 and 16, the 2024 Virtual Zora Neale Hurston Conference hosted by Bethune-Cookman University, with keynote speaker @iamdrjoycelyn and Craft Lecturer @SohrabFracis facebook.com/events/91024671…
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, born #OTD in 1776 in Steventon, Hampshire. Deborah Kaplan's Jane Austen Among Women (@JHUPress is available to download or read online #OpenAccess muse.jhu.edu/book/68486
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Lt.-Colonel John McCrae, a medical officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote "In Flanders Fields" in 1915 in Belgium following the death of a friend at the second battle of Ypres. A haunting reading of the poem by Leonard Cohen #RemembranceDay lnkd.in/eh-csHz
Trench warfare in World War I, via Wikimedia Commons. Today, November 11 is the 105th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between Germany and the Allies which brought an end to combat in the First World War

ALT Trench warfare in World War I, via Wikimedia Commons. Today, November 11 is the 105th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between Germany and the Allies which brought an end to combat in the First World War

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Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry, ed. by Gary Lane (@JHUPress , 2019), is free to read/download via @ProjectMUSE ) The essays on Plath, born in Boston #OTD in 1932, "offer insights into a violently interesting poet, one who despite, or perhaps because of, her suicide" (1/2)
English Heritage plaque that reads Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, poet, lived here 1960-1961, on a house in Camden, London. Via Wikimedia Commons

ALT English Heritage plaque that reads Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, poet, lived here 1960-1961, on a house in Camden, London. Via Wikimedia Commons

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The shortlist for the Irish Book Awards has been announced. Dr @katrionaos 's memoir Poor traces her journey from homelessness to academia. @paullynchwriter 's novel Prophet Song, also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, portrays a dystopian Ireland where a mother faces (1/2)
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A great resource: Harvard's Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/bl…
Image shows students reading during class in Montgomery, Alabama, April 1939. (Library of Congress)

ALT Image shows students reading during class in Montgomery, Alabama, April 1939. (Library of Congress)

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The engrossing work of Paul Strand (born in Brooklyn #OTD in 1890) is the focus of a 1945 catalogue from a MoMA exhibition by Nancy Newhall, Photographs, 1915-1945: Paul Strand -- the PDF is free to view online: moma.org/documents/moma_cata…
Image shows a photograph by Paul Strand, Portrait, Washington Square Park (1917) (via Wikipedia)

ALT Image shows a photograph by Paul Strand, Portrait, Washington Square Park (1917) (via Wikipedia)

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on Remington’s nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings . . . with excerpts from his personal diaries and letters and commentary from contemporary critics." (Publisher's note) (2/2) nga.gov/research/publication…
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