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3 weeks ago | 
nybooks.com | Sam Needleman |Nell Irvin Painter
Since the end of the last century, Nell Irvin Painter writes in her essay “‘This Land Is Yours,’” published in our March 27 issue, historians of many different American regions have shown in their work that “places assumed to be only and always White were not.” One of the purposes of these local Black histories has been to challenge “the delusion,” as Painter calls it, that parts of the country other than the South constitute “a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of...
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
themillions.com | Nell Irvin Painter
Year in Reading: Nell Irvin Painter I wish I had thought to keep a log of the books I read. But I didn’t, regarding book reading as my life of pleasure, not the calling for account. I’ll reform next year, for 2025 is going to need a list of what my country allows me to enjoy. But here, now, I scratch my memory for authors and titles I enjoyed, admitting that I enjoyed more books than the titles I can recall. My list manifests my attraction to other times and other places.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
everand.com | Nell Irvin Painter
I wish I had thought to keep a log of the books I read. But I didn’t, regarding book reading as my life of pleasure, not the calling for account. I’ll reform next year, for 2025 is going to need a list of what
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Luis Jaramillo |Kiano Moju |Nell Irvin Painter |Noam Keim
Standout 2024 books offer something for just about everyone, from foodies to art fiends. Photo: Getty ImagesBeautiful books make classic gifts for a good reason. What better way to show you understand what delights, inspires or just plain occupies the minds of your loved ones than giving them a thoughtful addition to their shelves?
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nell Irvin Painter
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Nell Irvin Painter
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Penguin Press)Review by Nell Irvin PainterOctober 3, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. EDTHarriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published this year not only do full justice to their legacies, but also illustrate different ways of crafting history right now. For history — and the way we write it — is changing virtually as we speak.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Nell Irvin Painter
The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too sprawling a question rooted in too runny a concept. We have more than just one current battle! Then, after the mystery of the “battle,” there’s the gooey concept of “today’s liberalism.” For this historian, “today” reaches back into the early twentieth century, where “liberalism” as a living, breathing, inspiring-but-myopic phenomenon resides in my own historical imagination.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nell Irvin Painter
The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too sprawling a question rooted in too runny a concept. We have more than just one current battle! Then, after the mystery of the “battle,” there’s the gooey concept of “today’s liberalism.” For this historian, “today” reaches back into the early twentieth century, where “liberalism” as a living, breathing, inspiring-but-myopic phenomenon resides in my own historical imagination.
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May 15, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Nell Irvin Painter |Valerie Morales
BookBrowse: Nell Irvin Painter has delivered a collection of essays that explore the complexities of culture, gender, art, and belonging.
Nell Irvin Painter's ninth book, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, is a collection of previously published work. The essays bear witness to history, art, politics, and black culture.
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May 2, 2024 | 
harvard.com | Nell Irvin Painter
presenting I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays in conversation with SARAH LEWIS Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome NELL IRVIN PAINTER—Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita at Princeton University and New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School—for a discussion of her new book I Just Keep Talking: A Life...
