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About Danielle Sigler

Sigler oversees public programming, publications, and fellowships at the Ransom Center. Her research interests include African American history and culture and American religious history. She is co-editor of The New Black Gods.

Parnassus on Wheels

April 11, 2018 - Danielle Sigler

On National Bookmobile Day, the American Library Association celebrates the 930 bookmobiles in the United States that provide library services to their communities, an important form of library outreach that has been ongoing for more than 100 years.  [Read more…] about Parnassus on Wheels

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Christopher Morley, library, literature, National Boomobile Day

On survival and freedom in 1958 America: Mike Wallace and Reinhold Niebuhr

March 30, 2018 - Danielle Sigler

In April 1958, the American Broadcast Company (ABC) began a special 13-part series of The Mike Wallace Interview devoted to “discussing the problems of survival and freedom in America.” Wallace’s first guest in the series was Reinhold Niebuhr, who Wallace introduced as “a Protestant minister, one of the most important and challenging religious thinkers in the world.” [Read more…] about On survival and freedom in 1958 America: Mike Wallace and Reinhold Niebuhr

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Martin Doblmeier, Mike Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, The Mike Wallace Interview

A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

April 27, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

The first page of A Wild Plaint, 1909. Christopher Morley Collection.

In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board of the Book-of-the-Month Club). [Read more…] about A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A Wild Plaint, A. K. White, African American Review, African-American, Aubrey Grey, Chicago, Christopher Morley, Danielle Brune Sigler, diary, Doubleday, Fenton Johnson, fiction, manuscript, novel, poet, poetry

Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights

February 21, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

A portrait of Frederick Douglass from the frontispiece of My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855).

February 20, 2017, marks the 122nd anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s death. Douglass (1818–1895), an abolitionist and activist for civil rights, was a gifted writer and orator. [Read more…] about Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights

Filed Under: Authors, Research + Teaching Tagged With: abolition, abolitionist, African American History Month, African-American, biography, Black History Month, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Danielle Brune Sigler, Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Slave Act, My Bondage and My Freedom, prejudice, slavery, Supreme Court

Claude McKay and “The White House”

February 16, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

Photograph of Claude McKay, taken for 'Home to Harlem' promotion, c. 1928.
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This February saw the release of a previously unpublished Claude McKay novel, Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin Classics). [Read more…] about Claude McKay and “The White House”

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Long Way from Home, African American History Month, Black History Month, Claude McKay, Danielle Brune Sigler, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows, Home to Harlem, Max Eastman, poem, poetry, Survey magazine, The Liberator, The New Negro, The White House, White Houses, William A. Bradley Literary Agency collection

A young Lewis Carroll, “musing on milk” and “reasoning on rubbish”

October 13, 2016 - Danielle Sigler

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898, The Rectory Magazine, 1850, manuscript. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Collection, Harry Ransom Center.

Through its digital collections portal, the Harry Ransom Center has made available a remarkable example of juvenilia from its Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection.

[Read more…] about A young Lewis Carroll, “musing on milk” and “reasoning on rubbish”

Filed Under: Digital Collections Tagged With: 19th century, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, British literature, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Danielle Brune Sigler, juvenilia, Lewis Carroll, magazine, Mark Twain, newspaper, The Rectory Magazine

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