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A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "The Rise and Fall of the Fact" a lecture by award-winning author and speaker Jill Lepore held at the College of the Holy Cross on January 31, 2019. Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University who teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence and of privacy. As a wide-ranging and prolific essayist, Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. ; https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1015/thumbnail.jpg

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "The Christian Invention of Human Dignity" a lecture by Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale University, who argues that human dignity has to be linked to the invention of Christian democracy. The lecture is sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, and was held at the College of the Holy Cross on February 26, 2019. ; https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1016/thumbnail.jpg

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "Crusades and Crusaders," a lecture by Kevin Madigan '82, held at the College of the Holy Cross on March 23, 2017. Professor Madigan explains what the Crusades were and explores how Crusaders viewed themselves as pilgrims on an armed expedition undertaken for Christ, authorized by the Pope, who were given full remission of their sins. He also traces the historiography of the Crusades in the 19th and 20th centuries to lay context for decision of the Holy Cross student body in 1925 to adopt Crusaders as their moniker. His talk is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity. ; https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1004/thumbnail.jpg

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "Writing Africa Today," a lecture by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah held at the College of the Holy Cross February 15, 2018. Gappah writes critically about the government, social and criminal justice issues, and human rights work in sub-Saharan Africa. Her collection of short stories called "Elegy for Easterly" was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009. Her second book, a novel, "The Book of Memory" is the fictional story of an imprisoned albino woman on death row, who is hoping for a presidential reprieve. Her most recent book, "Rotten Row," a collection of short stories in modern day Zimbabwe, is an exploration of life in a complex post-independence society. ; https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1011/thumbnail.jpg