Lyda Phillips | Chapter 16

On Account of Sex

In The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss dissects the battle for women’s right to vote

By Lyda Phillips | March 24, 2023

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Elaine Weiss’s The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote is a riveting history of the battle to secure voting rights for American women.

Setting Fire to Jim Crow

In his latest satiric novel, Gerald Duff skewers the vestiges of antebellum Nashville

By Lyda Phillips | January 9, 2018

Starting from an actual 1967 forum featuring South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King Jr., activist Stokely Carmichael, and beat poet Allen Ginsburg, Gerald Duff’s Nashville Burning looks at three consecutive Aprils of violence and change at Vanderbilt and other parts of the Music City.

From Calvin to Mao and Beyond: A Memoir

By Edgar A. Porter
St. Andrews University Press
285 pages
$19.99

“[Porter’s memoir] explains for future generations how his own Boomer generation evolved through struggles against racism, the Vietnam War, and myriad forms of oppression, both at home and internationally. I believe the book will be an important resource for future scholars interested in the social and political events of the mid to late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.”

~ John Lawson, Professor of English (retired), Robert Morris University