Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community ...

Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J. Pakula (1928–1998) left an indelible mark on cinema history. Alan J. Pakula: Interviews offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the director’s ...

Mary DuBose Trice Clark (1879–1967) was born on Christmas day in Okalona, Mississippi. Her father was a bookkeeper and owned a mercantile business. Her mother was a teacher and later a principal when ...

Jessica M. Floyd is associate professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County where she teaches undergraduate writing and literature. She is also adjunct instructor in the Department ...

Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University. Often referred to as “the Dean of American library historians,” he is author ...

Gary D. Rhodes is professor of media production at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is author of numerous books, including The Perils of Moviegoing in America  and The Birth of the ...

Robert Singer is retired professor of liberal studies at CUNY Graduate Center. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, ...

Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie ...

Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages ...

The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and ...