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In part eight of Books That Shaped America, Vanderbilt University history Professor Tiffany Ruby Patterson examined Their Eyes Were Watching God, a 1937 novel authored by Zora Neale Hurston …

Historians and authors spoke about the life and legacy of biographer and University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen Oates. Professor Oates, who died in 2021, specialized i…

Carla Kaplan talked about her book, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, in which she recalls a group of white women given the collective moniker “Miss Anne,” who p…

Carla Kaplan was joined by actors Avery Brooks and Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, and authors Jill Nelson and Brian Keith Jackson in a celebration of the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston. Also …