The Books Briefing: The Works That Changed Our Understanding of America Mary Stachyra Lopez © Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty / The Atlantic
A government of the people, by the people, and for the people: That was the idea behind the American experiment. But there has always been tension between the idea and the reality.
Inspired by great works of American inquiry,
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The Experiment: stories from an unfinished country. Literary works such as a speech from Eleanor Holmes Norton, the poetry of Audre Lorde, the analysis of James Baldwin, and the speeches of Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped staff make sense of this moment in history and the stories told in each episode. Through the life of his mother, Marylin, Vann R. Newkirk II shows how American democracy is younger, and more fragile, than we’ve been taught. Another episode explores how a loophole in the Constitution c
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To celebrate Frederick Douglass’s birthday, Penn State will host an online “transcribe-a-thon” event this weekend to preserve the papers of an important Black woman activist.
Jim Casey is a Douglass Day co-director and an assistant professor of African American Studies at Penn State. He said Douglass Day has evolved in the five years since it began.
“Early sort of Douglass Day celebrations did things like collect funds to make Douglass’s house in D.C. a kind of national monument, Casey said.
Casey said this year Douglass Day will focus on transcribing the papers of Mary Church Terrell, who fought for Black civil rights and established the National Association of Colored Women.