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Biographer of Levi Strauss begins book tour

Lynn Downey is touring with her biography Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World. Through storytelling, images, and readings from her book, Downey will help her...
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James E. Young Wins 2017 National Council on Public History Book Award

"A particularly relevant book for the disturbing times in which we live"

“Through Young’s book, readers confront some of the most painful moments in modern history and access new and powerful insights into the excruciating process of public remembrance.”...
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Darraj wins American Book Award, Arab American Book Award, and More

Giving voice to the Palestinian experience across the century

Susan Muaddi Darraj adds another award to her remarkable collection of short stories, A Curious Land: Stories from Home, with the Arab American Book Award. The book has also won the...
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"Global Boston" Website Celebrates Strength of Diversity

New Bostonian immigrants key to revitalized city

Building on Marilynn Johnson's book, The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s, a new website called Global Boston chronicles the history of...
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Exploring the Atomic Origins of Climate Science

New Yorker's Jill Lepore refers to Rubinson's new book

Read Jill Lepore on the atomic origins of climate science in the New Yorker. She includes information from Paul Rubinson's book Redefining Science; Scientists, the National Security...
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