William Loren Katz | Black Indians. Black West.

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Current Events: Tortured Reasoning And Tortured Results
Almost every day new evidence emerges showing that torture was authorized at the highest levels of the Bush administration. Dick Chaney's flurry of admissions and denials captured media attention, but in ways that only drew more attention to a host of grim crimes carried out in secret and distant places....
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Katz Media: Interview on The Leonard Lopate Show
Katz discusses Black Indians (MP3)
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Oberlin Heritage Center wins award for Katz's lectures
The Oberlin Heritage Center has received the History Outreach Excellence Award from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums (OAHSM) for William L. Katz's lectures on Black Indians. According to Pat Murphy, executive director of the Center, the award will be formally presented at a special luncheon at OAHSM's statewide conference on October 4, 2008. Katz, who gave the award-winning presentations earlier this spring, was also praised for the lectures by the President of the Ohio Senate.
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Books: Eighth edition of Black Women of the Old West announced
Atheneum Publishers is publishing its 8th edition of Black Women of the Old West, which was first issued in 1995. When it first appeared, the book received enthusiastic reviews, including an endorsement from Dr. Betty Shabazz who called it "one of the most interesting books I ever read." The Schomburg Center for Research in Black History and Culture will sponsor a party for the new edition...
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Prints: African Print Collection
For more than forty years as he wrote 40 highly praised books on African American history, William Loren Katz was also able to collect 250 fascinating antique engravings of African life from the 17th to the 19th centuries. His complete "African Print Collection" is now offered for sale.