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The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and…

Developed by Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow, Case Western Reserve University Recent attacks on healthcare and critical race theory…

This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions and activities, and resources to help students learn about Black print culture,…

Filmmakers Leslia Asako Gladsjo and Sam Pollard wanted to make a documentary about the  Tulsa Massacre, the two days in…

by Elysia Balavage Whether visible or invisible, emotional or physical, trauma is an inescapable component of human existence. The ways…

Tracy K. Smith, a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for poetry, joins The Asterisk* to discuss what it means to…

“Recitatif,” a rare Toni Morrison short story, arrives in book form today with a rigorous, close reading from London critic…

In a career spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing over 40 publications, Samuel R. Delany has written memoirs, novels, literary…

Four Anisfield-Wolf poets distilled their lines into an hour-long symphony of 15 voices. All are chancellors of the American Academy…

Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Her recent work has appeared…

Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson, an authority on the Great Migration and the anthropology of caste, will anchor the Cleveland…

Two girls, African American eighth graders, separated by geography and time, made a splash at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. …

Not only did Brown do heroic work in his original scholarship, but he escaped the insular world of academese and presented it in an accessible and appealing form. It’s a major accomplishment.

Deacon King Kong […] is robust and funny, confronting tragedy with an ebullient comic spirit, “pulling its punches” in unexpected ways that repudiate disaster and resound just right.

This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions, key quotations and activities to help explore Kevin Young’s 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Award-winning…

Gabrielle Bychowski is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on transgender and intersex history, disability culture,…

Cara Byrne, PhD is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University In her 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award…

This lesson plan thinks through the potential of utilizing Cleveland’s Inter|Urban mural project as a teaching tool to explore the…

Gabrielle Bychowski is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on transgender and intersex history, disability…

Zachary Thomas has served as the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Fellow since 2018. He is also the Executive Director of…