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Free men of color in New Orleans served double duty during the Civil War, fighting for both the Confederate and Union armies. 

Abraham Lincoln was nothing if not a writer, as well as a shrewd politician. One of his famous lines came in celebrating the fall of Port Hudson, just north of

By the end of the Civil War, the 76th USCI left no doubt it belonged.

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The author of Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing, Charif Shanahan’s poems explore mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, and mortality

Natasha Trethewey, (born April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.), American poet and teacher who served as poet laureate consultant in poetry (2012–14). Her subjects were chiefly history (both her family’s and that of the American South), race, and memory. Trethewey was born in the Deep South to an African American mother and a white father on the centennial of Confederate Memorial Day. Interracial marriage was still against the law in Mississippi when she was born. Her mother, a social...

Poetry, Graphic Novels and Provocative Fiction: Meet the 2022 Stellfox Honorees - Natasha Trethewey (poetry), Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner (graphic novels) and the Wu Ming collective, creator of a novel that inspired the name of QAnon, are Dickinson's 2022 Stellfox honorees.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry by English Prof. and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, “Native Guard” premiered this weekend on Northwestern’s Chicago Campus. Directed by Alliance Theatre and staged at the Wirtz Center, the play follows Trethewey’s experiences as a child of an interracial marriage in 1960s Mississippi and the story...

Interviews An Interview With Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey’s Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000) was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet. She is also the author of Bellocqs Ophelia (2002) and Native Guard (2006), the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her most recent book is Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississipi Gulf Coast (2010). Trethewey holds the Phillis Wheatley Disting...

UpdatedWed, Apr 14, 2021 at 2:33 pm ET Reply Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (Photo by Jill Norton) Actor Wendell Pierce will deliver remarks for Rutgers Newark students.​ Pierce is best known for his roles on HBO’s The Wire and Tremé. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP) The New York Times Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer prize for the "1619 Project," will get an honorary degree. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) NJ Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, who has led the states corona...