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Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project / Catherine A. Stewart

Of all the Federal Arts Projects set up as part of the New Deal, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) was, in the words of one contemporary, the ‘ugly duckling’ (p. 35).

Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary / Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker

Review Date: 
7 Jun 2012

Child of the Enlightenment is a captivating book: charming, moving, and richly informative, it melds the intimate and distant, weaving together bodies, emotions and minds, Enlightenment ideas and philosophy, and revolutionary politics.