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History Hijinks: Birth Control in America - The Career of Margaret Sanger by David Kennedy
Submitted by tamason on Wednesday May 08, 2013

Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger by David Kennedy (1970) 

In this 1970 book,

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History Hijinks Book Club: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson
Submitted by tamason on Wednesday May 08, 2013

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson (2006) 

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History HiJinks Book Club: Polio - An American Story
Submitted by lmoulton on Friday April 05, 2013

In Polio, David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas

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Lucas Mason-Brown Discusses How He Cracked the Roger Williams Code
Submitted by jgoffin on Wednesday April 03, 2013

 

Lucas Mason-Brown will discuss his efforts to decrypt the mysterious marginal annotations made by Roger Williams in a copy of one of his books. The resulting discoveries have been covered by the Boston Globe and Slate, among other

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HiFi (Historical Fiction) Writers' Collaborative
Submitted by lmoulton on Thursday February 21, 2013

he HiFi (Historical Fiction) Collaborative

A Providence Writing Group

 The HiFi Collaborative is a forum for historical fiction writers to:

  •  Share their writing
  • Offer and receive feedback
  • Discuss
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Reading Across RI: Political Dissent in Vietnam
Submitted by lmoulton on Thursday February 21, 2013

Crossing the Line: (Self-) Censorship and the Limits on Political Dissent in Vietnam

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History Hijinks Book Club: Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the US) by James Patterson

Submitted by tamason on Friday February 08, 2013

For March and April, the group will be reading:

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History Hijinks Book Club: Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the US) by James Patterson
Submitted by tamason on Friday February 08, 2013