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Sunday’s NBC telecast of the “Golden Globes” awards (8 p.m., WPXI-TV) includes a few ties to Pittsburgh, including Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.”
Former Pittsburgher Susan Schulman, a New York-based literary agent, represented the estate of Walter Tevis, author of the 1983 novel of the same name that was the basis for the Netflix show, which has nominations for best limited series and best actress in a limited series for star Anya Taylor-Joy.
Schulman taught English literature at Ohio University before moving to New York, becoming a literary agent and eventually founding her own agency. She said most books that are optioned by film and TV producers don’t make it to the screen.
Black and white photograph of Maryland sailmaker Curtis Downes, circa 1950. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The mythology of America s founding developed over the course of centuries. It will take many years and many hands to set the record straight and create an accurate historical picture of how the United States came to be. Last week, Williams College took a big step in helping that process when it was named, along with two academic partners, the recipient of a $4.9 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the non-profit s Just Futures Initiative. Williams, the Mystic (Conn.) Seaport Museum and Brown University s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice will spend the next three years on a project titled Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom.
Using maritime history as a backdrop, Mystic Seaport Museum is joining Brown University and Williams College to illuminate links between European settlement, dispossession of Native land and slavery in New England.
$4.9 million grant project to interrogate legacy of colonialism, subjugation in New England
Brown University, Williams College and the Mystic Seaport Museum scholars will use maritime history as a basis for studying the relationship between European colonization, dispossession of Native American land and racial slavery. A page from Francis Allyn Olmsted s Journal of a voyage around Cape Horn, 1839-1841. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] A $4.9 million grant to Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice will fund a partnership with Williams College and the Mystic Seaport Museum that will use maritime history as a basis for studying historical injustices and generating new insights on the relationship between European colonization in North America, the dispossession of Native American land and racial slavery in New England.