Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend divinity school up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or “ML” back then, immediately found himself surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room had once been used by wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. In addition, his fellow seminarians were almost all older; some were soldiers who had fought in World War II, others pacifists who had chosen jail instead of enlisting. ML was facing challenges he’d barely dreamed of. A prankster and a late-night, chain-smoking pool player, […]
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David Rubenstein on "The American Story" | 2019 National Book Festival
Marie Arana on "Silver, Sword, and Stone" | 2019 National Book Festival
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on "Stony the Road" and "Dark Sky" | 2019 National Book Festival
David Treuer on "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee" | 2019 National Book Festival
Beth Macy on "DopeSick" | 2019 National Book Festival
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Sarah Vowell | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series | University of Michigan
Sarah Vowell | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series | University of Michigan
Rebecca and Floyd Skloot on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
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Keith S. Wilson on Fieldnotes on "Ordinary Love" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
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