FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: [hcsf] NEWS -- 2010.07.26.Monday

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: July 26, 2010 7:13:46 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
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> Bob
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>> 1)
>> Watch "History Detectives" on PBS Monday night
>> 9 Eastern, 8 Central
>> http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/
>> http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/806_diana.html 
>> (watch it online now)
>> 
>> AIRED: Season 8, Episode 6 
>> THE DETECTIVE: Tukufu Zuberi
>> THE PLACE: California, Washington, D.C., and New York
>> 
>> THE CASE:
>> 
>> Scouring Manhattan bookstores our contributor came across the 250-page life 
>> story of a woman named Diana Fredericks.
>> 
>> The book, Diana: A Strange Autobiography, tells a sympathetic story of how 
>> one woman discovers that she is a lesbian. Few books dealt realistically 
>> with lesbianism before the 1960’s.
>> 
>> This book came out in 1939 with this note: “The publishers wish it expressly 
>> understood that this is a true story, the first of its kind ever offered to 
>> the general reading public.”
>> 
>> Experts call this book groundbreaking as one of the first works of gay 
>> literature with a happy ending.
>> 
>> History Detectives sets out to find the author. Who is Diana Fredericks? And 
>> is this story true?
>> 
>> Watch this episode online now
>> 
>> 
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