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    Custer Died for Your Sins

    Vine Deloria Jr.

    …born in Martin, South Dakota in 1933 to Vine Victor, an Episcopalian clergyman, and Barbara Eastburn Deloria. After receiving a BS from Iowa State University, Deloria obtained his MTh from…

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    Cuyahoga County Public Library: Author Richard Kopley 

    September 24 – September 24, 2026

    …Emeritus at Penn State DuBois, the author and editor of numerous books on Poe and American literature, and recipient of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement & Service Award from the Poe Studies Association. …

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    Spring Discussion Series – Paula

    April 16, 2025, 4:00 pm

    …2025 series will focus on memoirs by three Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners: Natasha Trethewey, Isabel Allende, and John Edgar Wideman. Hosted by Dr. Valentino Zullo, Anisfield-Wolf Postdoctoral Fellow in English…

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    Wade in the Water

    Tracy K. Smith

    …One member of the collective was poet Kevin Young, who won a 2018 Anisfield-Wolf prize for his nonfiction work, “Bunk.” When Smith submitted her first book, “The Body’s Question”, anonymously…

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    The War Before the War

    Andrew Delbanco

    …He was born in White Plains, N.Y., to Barbara and Kurt Delbanco, German Jews who escaped to London after the rise of the Nazis, then emigrated to the United States…

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    The Association of Small Bombs

    Karan Mahajan

    Karan Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut and grew up in New Delhi. When he was 12, Kashmiri separatists set off a car bomb in a market a few miles…

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    Hidden Figures

    Margot Lee Shetterly

    …it took the fresh eyes of a visit home in 2010 to trigger Shetterly’s curiosity—then near-obsession—with the many black women mathematicians who had worked for NASA. Hidden Figures brings four…

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    Olio

    Tyehimba Jess

    …takes back his narrative—a man who mailed himself out of slavery in a box to Philadelphia—from the minstrelsy canonized in John Berryman’s “Dream Songs.” And Jess awes readers with Sissieretta…

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    Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

    Sandra Cisneros

    …work delves into the unheralded inner lives of women through chronicles of migration, urban dislocation and deprivation in borderland arroyos and urban barrios. Cisneros captures the deepest existential concerns and…

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    Cloudsplitter

    Russell Banks

    One of America’s most uncompromising novelists, Russell Banks received the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1999 for Cloudsplitter, a book about the abolitionist John Brown. Narrated by Brown’s son Owen, the novel…

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    The Civilization of the Goddess

    Marija Gimbutas

    …an overview of Neolithic cultures on a pan-European scale (including habitation patterns, social structure, art, religion and literacy) and to articulate the differences between the matristic Old European and the…

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    A Tale of Two Plantations

    Richard S. Dunn

    …and raised in Minneapolis, the son of an academic. From adolescence, Dunn knew that he wanted to be a scholar. After graduating from Harvard in 1950, Dunn earned a master’s…

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    The Old Drift

    Namwali Serpell

    …when I think in Zambian words, to think in Bemba, not Nyanja.”  The novel spools out from a fateful 1904 incident set in a hotel bar near the Old Drift,…

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    The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought

    H.C. Baldry

    …the obstacles that stood in the way – the divisions between Greek and barbarian, free and slave, enlightened and unenlightened, even man and woman. This study will interest not only…

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    A History of the African People

    Robert W. July

    …relationship with the wider world–that is, the invasion of foreign peoples, ideas, and institutions that has been a pervasive influence in shaping African political, economic, and social life. This volume…

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    Elizabeth Alexander

    Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC. Alexander has degrees from Yale University and Boston University and completed…

  • Portrait of Orlando Patterson
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    Orlando Patterson

    …his scholarship. His Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won a National Book Award in 1991. In 1995, Patterson married Anita Goldman Patterson, a professor of English at Boston…

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    Sweetbitter

    Reginald Gibbons

    …and Triquarterly New Writers (1996), Gibbons has been represented in Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Gibbons has taught at Princeton University, Northwestern University, and Warren Wilson College….

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    Black Freedom

    Carleton Mabee

    …William Lloyd Garrison-were “non-resistants” who renounced violence under any circumstances, even for self-defense. Most abolitionists, however, conceived of nonviolence primarily as a means rather than an end, a moral and…

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    Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White

    Brent Staples

    …What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the oldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia….