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Black History Month with Go Big Read
Posted on February 10, 2023In his epigraph to the 2022-2023 Go Big Read selection How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith quotes from Frederick Douglass’ “The […]
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‘Go Big Read’ seeking book suggestions for 2023-24
Posted on December 14, 2022Clint Smith, author of the 2022-23 Go Big Read selection “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across […]
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2022-2023 Go Big Read Keynote Event with Clint Smith
Posted on November 7, 2022Last Tuesday, November 1st, author Clint Smith spoke to a packed audience of students, faculty, and community members inside Memorial Union’s Shannon […]
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An Evening with Clint Smith
Posted on October 24, 2022Please join us on Tuesday, November 1st at the Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall to welcome author Clint Smith to speak about his […]
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Author Clint Smith to give Go Big Read keynote Nov. 1
Posted on October 5, 2022October 3, 2022 By Käri Knutson Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” […]
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Public History Project Sponsors UW-Madison’s 2022-2023 Go Big Read Book Alongside Sifting & Reckoning Exhibit
Posted on September 28, 2022This year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Public History Project is a partner and one of the sponsors of the 2022-2023 Go Big […]
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Go Big Read Is Looking for 2022-2023 Book Suggestions
Posted on November 17, 2021It’s that time of the year again! The Go Big Read Program will now be taking suggestions for the 2022-2023 Go Big […]
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Capitol Lakes Go Big Read Display
Posted on November 5, 2021Since 2010, Capitol Lakes, a retirement community in downtown Madison, has used the Go Big Read book for community events and programming. […]
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An Evening with Yaa Gyasi
Posted on November 4, 2021When the doors opened to Shannon Hall last night, an abundance of enthusiastic students and community members inundated the theater, excited to […]
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Go Big Read author event with Yaa Gyasi scheduled
Posted on September 30, 2021“We are all a million things at once,” Yaa Gyasi has said about “Transcendent Kingdom.” Her book uses fiction to explore the very […]