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Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we feature Michael E. Woods to talk about his new book Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy, which came out in April 2020 with the University of North Carolina Press. This was a joint interview conducted by Patrick J. Kelly and Niels Eichhorn.
Feeding the Elephant first wrote about the Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute’s Toolkits for Equity in Scholarly Publishing project in the fall of 2019.
In the latest Perspectives on History, editor Allison Miller tells the fascinating story of the Multigraph Collective, a group of 22 book historians and print scholars from Canada, the US, and the UK interested in the materiality and interactivity of reading who employed a radical form of electronic collaboration to produce the jointly composed and edited "multigraph,"
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John M. Janzen. Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo. Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. 288 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-32500-8.
Reviewed by Emma Wild-Wood (University of Edinburgh) Published on H-Africa (August, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
