April 30, 2020 This Week in History, April 26th – May 2nd. Jesse Redmon Fauset 1 “The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us . .... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
March 20, 2020 The Week in History, March 15th – 21st. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg C. 2012 The Week in History recognizes the lives, losses and achievements of four authors. “How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when,... Categories Clark College Libraries
March 16, 2020 The Week in History, March 8th – 14th. Sylvia Beach [On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can’t get at it, or you publish right alongside of him... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
December 30, 2019 This Week in History, Dec. 29th – Jan. 5th “Art didn’t start black or white, it just started … There have been too many labels in this world: Negro, Colored, Black, African-American … Why do we label people with... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
December 23, 2019 This Week in History, Dec. 22nd -28th “I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
December 15, 2019 This Week in History, Dec. 15th – 21st “I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.” JANE AUSTEN, letter to Cassandra Austen, Oct. 26, 18131 This week we celebrate... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
December 9, 2019 This Week in History, Dec. 8th – 14th This week we celebrate the birthdays of two “Graces”. “Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, “We’ve always done it this way.” I try to fight that. That’s... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
December 2, 2019 This Week in History, Dec. 1st – 7th. “As long as I live, I will never be a party to anything as un‐American as a blacklist,” —Eric Johnston, president of the MPAA, who in 1947 did an about... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
November 25, 2019 This Week in History, Nov. 24th – 30th “Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.” Arundhati Roy This week we celebrate the birthday of author Arundhati Roy, 1997 winner of... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
November 18, 2019 This Week in History, Nov. 17th – 23rd. “There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” George Eliot This week we celebrate the bi-centennial birthday of... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
