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Common Reading : 2021

Meet the Author

The author's personal website provides information a short biographical sketch, a section on her published materials, events and videos that record interviews, lectures and presentations she has given.

Other Works by The Author

Other works by this author are available to read as well. Below is a short list of some of the titles by Caroline Clinton that the library has.

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South

Scarborough Library General Collection HQ806 .C53 1982

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

Scarborough Library General Collection HQ1410 .C44 1984

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War

Scarborough Library General Collection HQ1075.U6 D58 1992

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Common Reading

Shepherd University's Common Reading initiative is a way to involve campus and community in the reading and discussion of a single work. Events run throughout the year and here is the current events schedule for this year.

 

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This year's Common Reading selection is Harriet Tubman:The Road to Freedom by  Catherine Clinton; its call number is  E444.T82 C57 2004.

 

 

Copies of this work are temporarily shelved at Reserve Shelf behind Public Services Desk; please ask if a copy is available.

 

 

 

 

 

Brave Girls Virtual Storytime--When Harriet Met Sojourner by Catherine Clinton

Posted on YouTube by  the National Women's History Museum last year, this is a virtual reading of Catherine Clinton's children's book "When Harriet Met Sojourner". This video was uploaded on April 15, 2020. There is a transcript of this video  available under the ". . ." tab.