February 25, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA very Texan story: Shelby Hearon writes Barbara Jordan’s biography People always want you to be born where you are. They want you to have leaped from the womb a public figure. It just doesn’t go that way. I am the composite of my experience and all the people who had something to do with it. And I’m going to… read more
September 28, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film, Research + TeachingLove and jazz Maxine Gordon has loved jazz music all her life. From going to hear Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a teenager, to working as a road manager and promoter when she was a young woman, to becoming the personal manager and ultimately the wife of one of the most influential… read more
March 2, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingThe Art of American Crime: Q&A with Dr. Jerome Loving on Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song” In a review for The New Republic, Sarah Weinman says of Jerome Loving’s recently released biography, “Jack and Norman is a book that makes one wonder why it took so long for someone to write a full-length treatment of the whole mess.”
