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How My Grandmother’s Life Shaped My First Book by Sonia Gomez, author of Picture Bride, War Bride

When she died in 1991, my grandmother left me an oak desk, but I wouldn’t know this until decades later. Her demise came swiftly, and so did the unraveling of…

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How 19th Century College Students Argued for the Abolition of Slavery: A Conversation Between James Devitt and Michael Jirik

NYU Press author Michael Jirik explores how Black intellectuals ascended in society through dissent on campus Wilberforce University, above, was named after a British abolitionist and served as a vehicle…

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TeamUP! NYU and McGill-Queen’s Savor Food Studies in NYC and Montréal

Read McGill-Queen’s University Press’s post about Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montréal here. There is nothing quite as comforting as a pastrami on rye with mustard, a…

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