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The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Wed, Sep 19, 2007

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses her new book, *Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History*, which celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. Ulrich wrote, "They didn't ask to be remembered", in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. She then added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history". Today those words appear almost everywhere, but what do they really mean? In this book, Ulrich goes far beyond the slogan she inadvertently created and explores what it means to make history. Ulrich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of *A Midwife's Tale*, is a professor at Harvard University.

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Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit

Sun, Nov 4, 2007

Lou Dobbs discusses his latest book, *Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit*. Dobbs has examined the US's public policy choices over the past 30 years. He lays out the folly of continuing to follow existing domestic and foreign policies that have enriched and entrenched the elites, and burdened the rest of America to the breaking point. He explores how we must and can restore the fundamental national value of equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans.

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Terror Dream: The Post-9/11 American Psyche

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her new book, *The Terror Dream*, a dissection of the mind of America after 9/11. Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, she unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. *The Terror Dream* shows what 9/11 revealed about us and offers us the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

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David Isay: Listening is an Act of Love

Tue, Dec 9, 2008

David Isay tells about his new compilation in print, *Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project*. StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project in American history, has collected the memories of more than 20,000 people from all 50 states and every imaginable walk of life, background, identity group, age and state of mind. Isay is the StoryCorps founder and president. His radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody Awards. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship and an Edward R. Murrow Award. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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Bernie Schein: If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom

Tue, Jan 13, 2009

Bucking traditional belief that education should be impersonal, objective and formal, Bernie Schein argues that getting personal is the only way to make magic happen in school. A veteran of the classroom and a three-time principal, Schein has spent over 40 years studying how students learn. Through stories from his classroom, *If Holden Caulfield were in My Classroom: Inspiring Love, Creativity and Intelligence in Middle School Kids* describes how true emotion, rather than pure reason, is the key to discovering real relationships and personal truth. Bernie Schein is a former teacher, principal, and educational consultant. He taught English and social studies at the Paideia School in Atlanta. He currently lives in Beaufort, South Carolina, with his wife.

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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek

Thu, Jan 22, 2009

Bob Zellner's memoir, *The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement*, reveals one man's commitment to social justice during the civil rights movement. Zellner focuses on his experience as a civil rights activist from 1960 to 1967. Bob Zellner lives and teaches in New York state. Atlanta-based co-author Constance Curry is also a civil rights veteran and has written several books and produced a documentary film.

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Stephen J. Cannell: On the Grind

Wed, Jan 28, 2009

TV writer and author Stephen J. Cannell talks about his craft and his latest in the *Shane Scully* detective series, titled *On the Grind*. An Emmy award-winning writer/producer and Chairman of Cannell Studios, he is one of the most prolific writers in television history. He is also the author of some 14 novels. Cannell lives in Los Angeles with his family.

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Kinfolks: Search for My Melungeon Ancestors

Tue, May 8, 2007

Lisa Alther chronicles her search for the missing branches of her family tree in *Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree, The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors*. Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia, and every day they reenacted the Civil War at home. Then a babysitter with bad teeth warned Alther about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Alther learned they were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned people, often with extra thumbs, living in East Tennessee. Learning that a cousin had his extra thumbs removed, she set out to discover who these mysterious Melungeons really were, and why her grandmother wouldn't let her visit their Virginia relatives. Were there Melungeons in the family tree? Alther assembled clues over the years, but DNA testing finally offered answers. Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how (and how not) to climb your family tree, *Kinfolks* shimmers with humor, showing just how wacky and wonderful our human family really is.

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Archivist's Story: Secrets of the Lubyanka Prison

Tue, Jul 10, 2007

Travis Holland discusses his first novel *The Archivist's Story*, which explores the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison in Russia, where a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there.

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Can We Talk about Race?

Thu, May 17, 2007

Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the *Brown v. Board of Education* decision. A self-described "integration baby," Tatum sees our growing isolation from one another as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial division. In this book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. As an acknowledged expert on race relations in the classroom and the development of racial identity, she participated in President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race" and lectures extensively throughout the country. Tatum is also the writer of *Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?* and *Assimilation Blues*.

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