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Oct 7, 2024

Oct 7, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, journalist, and author Victor Luckerson will discuss his recent book, Built From the Fire, with Assistant Professor Ashley Howard.  Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street, is the winner of the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History in Boston, the SABEW Best in Business Book Award, the Lillian Smith Book Award, and the Oklahoma Historical Society's E.E. Dale Award...

Oct 16, 2024

Oct 16, 2024

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Happy Spooky Szn, Hawkeyes! The Pentacrest Museums are excited to put on Spooky Night @ The Museum, open for all of our campus and community to enjoy. We'll keep the Old Capitol Museum open after hours for guests to find a treat and roam the galleries. Stumble upon docents with some slightly spooky history to share with you in our galleries like the original University President's Office, the original UI Library, and the original Iowa House Chamber where our Iowa Constitution was first draf...

Oct 16, 2024

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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The macabre practice of binding books in human skin sounds like the stuff of horror movies, but it was actually done by well-respected doctors in the 19th century, a practice now known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. Join Megan Rosenbloom as she discusses her debut bestselling book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation in the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, and how her interdisciplinary scientific team’s work to prove and disprove claims of anthropodermic books fits int...

Oct 24, 2024

Oct 24, 2024

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor at Columbia University. He is the author of 10 books, including Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (2023). Historian Jon Meacham hailed the book as “a compelling and important account of Humphrey’s critical role in the freedom struggles of the mid-20th century.”   Freedman’s previous books include Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School...