Free for All
In On Freedom, Yale historian Timothy Snyder explores the possibility of a true freedom that is more than the absence of repression. Snyder will speak at Rhodes College in Memphis on March 30.
Book Reviews
Walking a Pitch-Dark Road
Code Name: Pale Horse, Scott Payne’s memoir of his years as an undercover agent infiltrating white supremacist groups, shines a glimmering light on our nation’s underbelly. Payne will discuss the book at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on March 27.
The Humanity in Every Person
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis, Rhodes College historian Jeffrey H. Jackson has captured one of those stories from the edges of World War II, and the result is a fascinating examination of community and resistance, gender and sexuality, and what it means to recognize the humanity in every person.
Writing a New Life Story
Author Marianne Richmond, best known for her award-winning children’s books, has written a powerful new memoir that provides a glimpse into her own troubled childhood with a neglectful mother and an undiagnosed illness. Richmond will discuss If You Were My Daughter at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 20.
Family, Memory, and Truth
Florence, the debut poetry collection by Knoxvillian Bess Cooley, is a euphonic meditation on family, memory, and truth that plays with time and form.
The Long Grasp of War
How and when did the Civil War end? That’s the question examined by Michael Vorenberg in Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War. There is no simple answer, and his investigation leads to uncomfortable questions about the nature of war in today’s world.
