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view allTo Be or Not to Be Free
Artist Faith Ringgold was born in 1930 in Harlem and began making art when she was very young. As a child, she was often sick, and making art helped her pass the time while...
viewLiterature and Film in Lockdown – Week 4: Camus, “The Plague”
Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague” (La peste), published in 1947, tells the story of a group of characters living through an outbreak of contagious disease in the 1940s, in...
viewAbsolution Under Fire
In his painting Absolution Under Fire, Paul Henry Wood commemorated a singular and historic event that occurred on July 2, 1863, during the three-day Civil War battle at...
viewBroadcasting the Bicentennial Birthday Bash: History, Myth, and Ideology in Television’s Celebration of 1776
Accompanied by rare clips from the prestigious Peabody Awards Collection, this presentation analyzes how television programming from across the United States in 1976 celebrated...
viewThe Power of My Pen to Describe: Ten American Diaries, 1750-1900
The Power of my Pen to Describe is a digital exhibit highlighting ten unpublished American manuscript diaries from the holdings in Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh...
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