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Intern Spotlight: Uncovering African American Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Manuscript Division

Posted by: Josh Levy

This is a guest post by Onur Ayaz, formerly a Junior Fellow in the Manuscript Division. When does entrepreneurship become innovative, and when does innovation become invention? Are activists, educators, scientists, and laborers also innovators? Are they entrepreneurs? In 1918 Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian who also collected manuscripts, ephemera, and other materials …

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Censorship, the Comic Book, and Seduction of the Innocent at 70: A Roundtable Discussion

Posted by: Josh Levy

Join staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions for a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy and its afterlives in more recent clashes over representations of race and sexuality in comics and graphic novels.