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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Grace Lee addresses an audience of about 25 following a screening of her documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” at Evanston Public Library on Thursday. The documentary focuses on the life and work of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs.

Northwestern, Evanston Public Library host filmmaker, documentary screening

April 24, 2015

Evanston Public Library and Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program screened a documentary about a Chinese-American activist Thursday, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker. About...

Brian Edwards, director of Northwestern’s MENA program, addresses the audience of about 95 at the Evanston Public Library on Monday. MENA faculty members Edwards, Wendy Pearlman, Henri Lauziere and Jessica Winegar discussed four misconceptions about the Middle East.

MENA faculty discuss four myths about the Middle East

April 14, 2015

Northwestern professors Monday discussed misconceptions about the Middle East and the reasoning behind the myths. Held at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., the event was the third lecture...

Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history at Rice University, speaks Monday at the Evanston Public Library. Makdisi discussed the origins of sectarianism in the modern Middle East.

Rice University professor discusses sectarianism in Middle East

March 3, 2015

A Rice University professor spoke Monday at the Evanston Public Library on sectarianism in the Middle East and how the region’s history of coexistence has slowly been forgotten. Ussama Makdisi,...

Samuel Munoz, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks Sunday about the environmental history of Cahokia during the Chicago Archaeological Society’s monthly meeting at the Evanston Public Library. Munoz has studied the environment of Cahokia, a region in southern Illinois that was home to the Native American Mississippian mound-building culture.

Chicago Archaeological Society discusses environmental history of Cahokia region

February 22, 2015

Members of the Chicago Archaeological Society discussed potential reasons Native Americans abandoned the Cahokia region of Illinois around 1200 A.D. at the group's monthly meeting at the Evanston Public...

Author Terra Brockman speaks about her book on sustainable, small-scale farming at the Evanston History Center. Brockman described one year on her brother’s central Illinois farm, Henry’s Farm, which sells produce at the Evanston Farmers Market.

Evanston History Center hosts author of sustainable farming memoir

February 20, 2015

An author spoke Thursday evening about a year spent on a central Illinois farm and the importance of supporting sustainable farming, the subject of her book. Terra Brockman, author of “The Seasons...

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