The Akron Beacon Journal gives us “5 Takeaways” from former Governor Dick Celeste’s new memoir In the Heart of it All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service.
“Celeste describes a number of guerilla campaign tactics he used to get his name before voters. They included having himself paged at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport […]
Smile Politely reviews The Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey: Geologist, Surveyor, Military Engineer, Civil War Strategist.
“Stanley Totten’s readable and fact-packed book from original sources is an excellent tribute to a man who previously has barely surfaced in the history of the Midwest, despite his enormous contributions to our area and nation.”
—Smile Politely
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Kathleen O’Shea, author of So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature speaks Daily Remedy about her early experiences with migraine and how she discovered healing through literature.
“This was 1978; there were no headache specialists, no migraine support groups, no medications specifically designed to treat this disease. In fact, it wasn’t even known […]
Dear Vaccine, the interactive Global Vaccine Poem launched by Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center to promote the COVID-19 vaccine, will soon become a staged theatrical production.
The performance, titled What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic, will have its opening night at 7 p.m. on […]
Our favorite cartoonist Tom Batiuk has launched a brand new website, TomBatiuk.com. Check it out!
“I’m also very excited to let you know that I recently launched a brand new website — TomBatiuk.com which will take the place of FunkyWinkerbean.com. This new website allows me to promote and discuss all my strips including Funky, Crankshaft, and […]
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, […]
