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• Lapham’s Quarterly published an excerpt from Duncan Ryūken Williams’s American Sutra on the WWII-era Buddhist priests who used their forced internment as an opportunity to develop spiritual freedom.
• Ana Raquel Minian, author of Undocumented Lives, explained to the New Yorker how the Trump administration’s “wall” rhetoric changes the lives of people in Mexico.
• Caitlin Rosenthal, author of Accounting for Slavery, warned in the Washington Post that the history of slavery shows how efficiency without ethics, even at the microeconomic level, can be morally catastrophic.

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February 14: Conceived in Freedom, Dedicated to Women’s History: An Appreciation of Anne Firor Scott

Historian and activist Anne Firor Scott, who helped pioneer and advance the field of women’s history, passed away on February 5. Susan Ware, whose forthcoming book Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote is dedicated to Anne, honors her dear friend…