EDWARD VALENTIN JR. is a curator at the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC. He received his bachelor of science in history from the United States Military Academy in 2010 and his doctorate in history from Rice University in May 2020. His work focuses on nineteenth-century US history and the experiences of Black soldiers in the US-Mexico borderlands during the post–Civil War era. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Black Men in Army Blue: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866–1900, under contract with the University of Virginia Press.

South Carolina Primary Health Care Association is inspired by Dear Vaccine to let young people describe the potential benefits of Covid-19 vaccinations for youth.
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“Dear Vaccine” from Chari Rabinowitz Goldberg on Vimeo.

Hemingway in Comics author Robert K. Elder writes on “the most significant cache of Hemingway materials uncovered in 60 years” for the NYT. A fascinating read!
“For years, most Hemingway scholars could only salivate about the Bruce collection, uncertain of its exact contents or even location. What they did know was that in 1939, after his second […]

Regennia Williams co-author of, Through the Lens of Allen E. Cole speaks about the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new exhibit.
“I’m passionate about this history that’s illustrated in this exhibit that we have in this space… [This is] Black history according to Allen E. and Francis T. Cole.”
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Escape into Life reviews Sister Tongue زبان خواهر by Farnaz Fatemi, winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
“Its 90-some pages offer the heft and satisfaction of a fat novel. In capturing (and refusing to tame) her personal story, Fatemi captures something essential about what it means to be female and, for that matter, […]

The Washington Post speaks to cartoonist Tom Batiuk about “How Funky Winkerbean became the darkest strip on the comics pages.”
“I started out writing about kids in high school who worry about trying to get a date and climbing the rope in gym class,” says the Funky Winkerbean creator this month by Zoom from Medina, Ohio. “Now, I’m […]

Intima journal gives praises to MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by François I. Luks
 
“MedSpeak Illuminated also contains a treasure trove of information related to the history of medical illustration. In an age when graphic medicine has become a well-respected art and literary genre, Luks presents an absolutely fascinating crash course of […]

Doctor, artist, and writer François I. Luks speaks with the Providence Journal about his new book MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration.
“MedSpeak Illuminated opens with the story of medical art, which dates to ancient civilizations – and possibly even to cave paintings. Leonardo da Vinci, arguably the greatest medical illustrator ever is […]

Congratulations to Bob Dekle! His book, The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare, has won a Bronze Medal in the Political/Current Events category from the Florida Authors & Publishers Association President’s Awards. 
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Don’t miss this informative interview with So Much More Than a Headache author Kathleen O’Shea.
“As with literature, this state of ambiguity is where many migraineurs find themselves. There are no simple solutions for migraine and its complexity of pain and suffering; there is no ‘cure.’ The ‘answers’ come in fits and spurts through the right […]