Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

This photograph illustrates Booker T. Washington’s contribution, as it was described by his secretary and biographer Emmett J. Scott, as a “builder of a civilization.” Learn how in this piece from #picturingblackhistory #blackhistory365 https://t.co/02nS1tBKG2

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Alice Walker's The Color Purple marked a turning point in which a protest novel could be Black, feminine, and explicitly queer. #picturingblackhistory #blackhistory365 Read her story here: https://t.co/NEMffDOrwa

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Published in 1963, Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique helped spark a mass movement that transformed women’s legal status in the U.S. Learn more about this influential book and author in this article from Origins: https://t.co/ZePCq7jbbI https://t.co/Y6WOoCs6tN

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

On January 1st, 1818, Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. The novel dramatizes the clash of two cultures—the Enlightenment that celebrated reason and science and the Romantic age that celebrated passion and art. https://t.co/Sjs9eW1ku5

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

#onthisday In 1963, two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Klan members bombed an Alabama church with 200 worshipers inside, killing 4 and injuring 22 others. Remember and learn about the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing here: https://t.co/XXryOSLh76 https://t.co/xtJhQdJSmf

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

#onthisday In 1921, Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett formed the American Birth Control League. Learn about the histories of reproduction rights in the USA and Europe here: https://t.co/mil1wGHITJ https://t.co/MxYVF9Wfwc

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

On January 1st, 1818, Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. The novel dramatizes the clash of two cultures—the Enlightenment that celebrated reason and science and the Romantic age that celebrated passion and art. https://t.co/Sjs9eW1ku5

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Alice Walker’s act of generosity in writing The Color Purple forever revolutionized Black women’s literature. #alicewalker #thecolorpurple #blackhistory365 https://t.co/MyDexQnFXK

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley talks about his new book, "Silent Spring Revolution," which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties. Listen here: https://t.co/bonr52XgGB https://t.co/xBL5MwnKOk

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Happy Birthday to Virginia Woolf, born #OnThisDay in 1882! A highly influential member of the Modernist movement, Woolf was the author of such classics as "The Hours," "Mrs Dalloway," and "A Room of One's Own"... not to mention this iconic 1927 love letter to Vita Sackville-West. https://t.co/0KJOqqan8r

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