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William Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” at 50

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On October 9, 1967, William Styron’s novel from history, The Confessions of Nat Turner, was published to acclaim and controversy. Styron was raised in Newport News, Virginia, about a hundred miles from the site of the rebellion in Southampton County, … Continue reading →

ABCs of Special Collections: I is for

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Welcome to our most recent installment of the ABCs of Special Collections, where the  featured letter is I is for Robert Ingersoll Robert Ingersoll, the great American 19th-Century orator, was popularly known as “The Great Agnostic.” An attorney by trade, … Continue reading →