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History Revealed: Modern Bonds
March 12, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CDT
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The East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society
invite you to talk with author
Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Salem State University
about her new book
Modern Bonds: Redefining Community in Early 20th Century St. Paul
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 7pm
Free and open to all. No reservations needed.
What does “community” mean and how did it come to signify everything from close friends to the entire world? Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello returns to St. Paul to talk about her new book, Modern Bonds: Redefining Community in Early Twentieth Century St. Paul, which considers how community was reconceptualized in the first decades of the twentieth century. She takes up a wide range of materials to show how everyday practices and materials–fiction, photography, architecture, public parks, the winter carnivals — united and divided citizens across lines of gender, class, and race while remaking the definition of “community”. In this interactive lecture/discussion she will share key ideas and examples from the book with the goal of opening up conversations and motivating action in the here and now as much as offering a new synthesis of cultural, social and intellectual history of the early 20th century.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
Elizabeth Ann Duclos-Orsello is professor and chair of interdisciplinary studies and coordinator of American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts.
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East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street
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