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While Women’s History Month is coming to a close, there’s still plenty of time to explore some new books at the DePaul University Library about the accomplishments and contributions of Chicago women: A Brick and a Bible: Black Women’s Radical Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression highlights Black
Continue the celebration of Latinx Heritage Month with these recently published books about the diversity of Latinx experience and culture. For more, also explore our new Latinx Voices collection that highlights resources from creators who identify as Afro-Latinx or Latinx. The Chicago metropolitan area is home to one of the
This month, in recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the DePaul University Library highlights a few new publications from Asian American voices. Explore Asian American lives and experiences through art, fiction, memoir and history: View thirty-six works created by Filipino American artist Carlos Villa (1936-2013) in the
In honor of Women’s History Month, the DePaul University Library presents a selection of new books and e-books that highlight the lives of women and the impact they’ve made. Explore women’s contributions to everything from global politics to the blues and popular music, digital media, medicine, and more. Journalist and
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family presents the Galvin family, a married couple with twelve children. The oldest child was 20 years older than the youngest, with 10 boys and 2 girls. Eventually six of the sons would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Award-winning journalist Robert Kolker
Throughout history, women have organized to fight for equal rights and insist on a better world. Rise up for women’s rights with these selected new e-books highlighting the history of women’s activism. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, the first African American president of the League of Women Voters of the United States, celebrates
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread One of the first appearances of the word “misinformation” is in “Poverties Patience,” a lengthy poem Arthur Warren wrote while in debtors’ prison in 1604. Warren cautions his readers about shipwrecks caused by the “sweete” sonnets sung
Celebrate Black History Month by reading more about visionary artists, musicians, writers, and theatrical performers of color who have shaped American culture. These selected new e-books explore Black contributions to the arts from rock and roll to experimental art to the theatre. The following publications demonstrate how black artistry has
2020 will perhaps be remembered not only as a year of consuming sorrow and heartache but also as a time when multiple contradictions ruled our daily lives. The invisible enemy made visible a great deal about ourselves, our values and our weapons of mass salvation: kindness, generosity, and good information.
My colleagues and I often review recently acquired books by our library—most often fiction—for this blog, but this post, in honor of April, National Poetry Month, focuses on a few selected poems. Poetry, as Auden so famously wrote, “makes nothing happen.” And yet, it offers us powerful insights about the