Rhode Island
(William Morrow)
The week before Halloween seemed the ideal moment to pick up the 617-page epic horror novel “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M. Danforth. The tangled story toggles between a cursed Rhode Island boarding school for girls during the early 1900s and present day when a group of queer women return to film a movie about the school’s fabled history. Danforth writes with humor and is at her brilliant best with vivid female character portrayals, who are as wild and unpredictable as the untamed Rhode Island shoreline.
South Carolina
One of the most compelling books I read this year was “Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.” Morgan Jerkins takes readers through South Carolina and the Low Country as she embarks on a reverse migration to trace 300 years of her family’s history, much of which has been obscured by cultural erasure and lack of documentation. Through research and conversations about land displacem
Sean Scully: Geometry as Gesture as Perception
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The effects of armed conflict on the health of women and children
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Professor of History Colin Gordon awarded NEH Fellowship
The prestigious honor will support Gordon s research into the race-restrictive housing covenants that fueled structural segregation in St. Louis
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Colin Gordon, the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa, has received the nation s most prestigious award for humanities scholarship, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship.
Gordon s fellowship will support research for his upcoming monograph, tentatively titled
Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation. The monograph, and a digital companion project, will be the newest publications of his long-running and influential research into policies that created and have sustained residential racial segregation throughout St. Louis, Missouri, and its suburbs.
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