Juniper Literary Prizes Open for Submissions

August 1-September 30, 2016

University of Massachusetts Press Announces the Juniper Literary Prize Series

Celebrating 40 years of the Juniper Prize

Dedicated to bringing...
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Historic Preservation as a Tool for a More Just World

"Bending the Future" Engages Innovation in Preservation

Open Discussion November 14th at Jones Library

Historic preservation often gets criticized for being aesthetically elitist, concerned with only celebratory history....
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Cheryl Knott Honored with Two Book Awards

"An illuminating account of the development and demise of separate public libraries for African Americans"

Cheryl Knott has won both the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for her book Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow. ...
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Science/Technology/Culture Book Wins International Award

"Work Sights" recognized for fusing multiple fields of history

Vanessa Meikle Schulman, Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America, has won the 2016 International Committee for the History for Technology (ICOHTEC)...
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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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