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Timothy Tyson talked about his book The Blood of Emmett Till, in which he recalls the life and death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year old African-American, who was tortured and killed in Miss…

Participants talked about the modern context of the Civil War, how it is taught in classrooms, and improvements that could be made to those lessons. They also talked about the war’s ramifica…

Author Timothy Tyson spoke about his book Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, published by Crown Publishers. In this memoir, Timothy Tyson recounts his childhood in Oxford, North Carolin…

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the publishing year 2004 read from their works at an event held In the New School’s auditorium the evening before the award ceremony…