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Abha Khetarpal was born in Ambala, Haryana [11] to parents who were migrants from Burma. [12] Both her parents were teachers. [13] Khetarpal contracted polio at the age of three.
It publishes The American Historical Review four times annually, which features scholarly history-related articles and book reviews. AHA is the major learned society for historians working in the United States, while the Organization of American Historians is a field society for historians who study and teach about the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
A steering committee led the planning phase of the DPLA initiative from inception through its launch in 2013. Members of the project's Steering Committee included Harvard University's Robert Darnton, Maura Marx, and John Palfrey; Paul Courant of University of Michigan, Carla Hayden then of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library and subsequently the Librarian of Congress, Charles J. Henry of the ...
A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.
The Authors Guild is the United States' oldest and largest professional organization for writers and provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection. Since its founding in 1912 as the Authors League of America , it has counted among its board members notable authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including numerous ...
Eligible tells the story of the five Bennet sisters - Jane (39), Liz (38), Mary (30), Kathleen "Kitty" (26), and Lydia (23). Jane is a yoga instructor and Liz is a writer for fashion magazine Mascara. They both live in New York City, but return to their sprawling childhood Tudor home in Cincinnati after their father has a health scare.
Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974 [1]) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English. Her novels include Babyji , Family Values , That Summer in Paris , and Miniplanner . [ 2 ] Her 2005 novel Babyji won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award .