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The true stories and real people Daniel James Brown encounters in his life often help point him in the direction of his next literary undertaking. Brown met Tom Ikeda at an awards ceremony where Ikeda captured Brown's curiosity when he spoke of his documentation of hundreds of oral histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II and whose lives were forever altered by those experiences. "There's all these wonderful stories," Brown told The Press during a phone call Wednesday. "He’s made all these oral histories available for free online, so I ...

Tanner Humanities Lecture: A Conversation With Martha S. Jones February is Black History Month, but even those of us who grew up learning a few names of notable historical African-Americans probably can't come up with a female name beyond Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. The history of Black women in America has been a history of struggle against two cultural obstacles to equality—race and sex. And even as the 2020 election elevated the significance of Black women as a game-changing voting bloc, and made Stacey Abrams a figure of national importance, that reality wasn't possible without...