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Category: History
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Beacon Press editor Gayatri Patnaik talks about the latest books in The King Legacy Series.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a new, altered version. The author of Inheriting the Trade writes about why he thinks this is a bad idea.
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A list of Beacon Press titles that address the issues faced by veterans and their loved ones.
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Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Neil Miller discusses his new book about the 80-year reign of the Watch and Ward Society, Boston’s moral crusaders.
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Stephen Puleo will be at the Boston Public Library at 6pm tonight to discuss his book Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. If you can't make it, head over to the Boston.com Live Chat right now (it begins at noon) and Puleo will tell you anything you want to know about Boston's…
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Charles Euchner discusses the recent revelation that an acclaimed photographer of the civil rights movement was an FBI informant.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and peace demonstrations in the 1960s and the new millennium; in Mongolia, Cuba, and other developing nations; and since…
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Charles Euchner looks at the dueling marches in Washington, both being held on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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In this excerpt from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the March on Washington, the leaders of the March determine how to acknowledge the death of a leader in the movement for black civil rights.
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