by Tom DeWolf | Mar 30, 2008 | Traces of the Trade
You can now watch a preview of the upcoming television broadcast premiere of Traces of the Trade at the P.O.V. blog (which is definitely worth checking out as a terrific resource for news about documentary films that you might not otherwise learn about. As I’ve...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 18, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
ANNOUNCED TODAY P.O.V.–the Emmy Award winning documentary series on PBS–will launch its 2008 season with the television broadcast premiere of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North on June 24 at 10:00pm (check your local listings). We were all...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 14, 2008 | Traces of the Trade
You can read a terrific new article in The Nation (web only at this point), Tracing Slavery’s Past, by Te-Ping Chen, that focuses on Traces of the Trade within the larger context of discussions (or lack thereof) about race in the United States. And rather than...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 2, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
As I continue to learn about the business end of the book world I’ve become quite intrigued (and impressed) by how publicity works and how word spreads. My publicist at Beacon Press, Leah Riviere, continues to do an amazing job of outreach to various media as...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 26, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
A couple of weeks ago I received a call from a friend of mine in Chicago, State Senator Jacqui Collins (Jacqui and I both participated in the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 17, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
In today’s (February 17, 2008) edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Joseph M. Torsella, the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, writes an excellent guest editorial: “The nation’s slave past.” The...
