Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. What does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long, popular culture, from Hollywood Westerns to novels, music, […]
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The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. With some 400 members, the San Francisco-based California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth […]
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Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. Though canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia, we are, once again, at a historical moment when there is resistance […]
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Ranger of the Lost Art – Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of our National Parks
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Doug Leen, is a retired dentist and seasonal park ranger. He started his company, Ranger Doug's Enterprises in 1993, with a goal of […]
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FABS Living With Books: Book Cartoons and Jokes/Advice to Younger Bibliophiles
Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group hosted by Reid Byers for conversation about the joys and challenges of home libraries. This month's topics: 1. Book Cartoons and Jokes 2. […]
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Adam Smyth on The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. May Midday Program From the aptly named Wynkyn de Worde to creators of Zines, Adam Smyth unspools the story of books by illuminating the lives […]