Jeff Forret, professor of history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book “Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South” (Louisiana State University Press...
Betsy Beinecke Shirley began collecting children’s books in order to share her childhood favorites with her grandchildren.“Story Time” was collected and edited by Beinecke curator Timothy Young.No casual collector, Shirley was the daughter of Walter...
Books by three Yale authors are among the eight books recommended by The New York Times in its monthly roundup of new books.“Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion” by Paul Bloom, “Looking for ‘The Stranger’: Albert Camus and the Life of a...