memoir 
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/13/2023
Three Novels Rooted in Forgotten Black Histories
Novels by Kai Thomas, Jamila Minnicks, and Nyani Nkrumah tell stories of Black life at the Canadian end of the Underground Railroad, an all-Black town in 1950s Alabama, and in post-Civil Rights Mississippi.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/11/2022
Leonard Kriegel, 89: Writings Catalyzed Discussion of Disability
Kriegel's writings about his experiences after contracting polio stripped away sentimentality and pity from the literary stereotype of the disabled in favor of a full and often conflicted picture of his own humanity as a disabled person.
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SOURCE: American Historical Review
9/19/2022
"As if I Wasn't There": Writing from a Child's Memory
by Martha Hodes
Writing her own memory of being held hostage by terrorists forced the author to put herself at the center of the story.
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8/28/2022
How I Helped a Private Man Share His Story of Escaping the Nazis
by David Tabatsky
For me, the son of a cantor and WWII veteran, who grew up seeing numbers tattooed on numerous arms, sharing Salomon Kool's story has reminded me of a collective mission to always remember.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/16/2022
A Family History of the Futility of Preparing for Nuclear War
On the lessons learned from working at the government's network of bomb shelters.
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12/19/2021
A Passport Tells a Story of a Bygone Time
by Ron Steinman
The author's passport, with its pages added to accommodate the visas accrued through decades of foreign journalism, reflects an era of travel that might never return from the twin threats of COVID and the decline of international trust in the United States.
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SOURCE: Forward
11/30/2021
Mel Brooks Delivers 500 Pages on His Favorite Subject – Himself
"The stuff that hasn’t been public, or at least is tough to find, makes the book worthwhile."
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/21/2021
The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth’
"In 'On Juneteenth' Annette Gordon-Reed leads by example, revisiting her own experiences, questioning her own assumptions — and showing that historical understanding is a process, not an end point."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/22/2021
My Brother’s Keeper
by Ada Ferrer
Historian Ada Ferrer offers her own family history of separation and reunification around the Cuban revolution.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/9/2021
We Were the Last of the Nice Negro Girls
by Anna Deavere Smith
The playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith recalls her educational experiences at a small historically white college during the Civil Rights era, and the way the campus climate spurred her fellow Black students to develop a distinct identity.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/16/2020
Jeffrey Goldberg Interviews Barack Obama on History and the State of Democracy
"If we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”
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7/26/2020
One of the Chicago 7 Reflects on Dissident Politics Then and Now
by Lee Weiner
A veteran of dissident politics in the 1960s warns that while today's broad coalition of activists for a more just and democratic America are on the right track, they must learn from the mistakes of an older generation and find ways to keep united despite difference.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-9-14
Rumor: Brown historian and Bill Clinton speechwriter Ted Widmer helped Hillary write her memoir
Their exact contributions, however, aren’t spelled out.
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