Page of Reason, Vol. XV, February 2023
Dispatches from your most humble servant, the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona University
Welcome to Volume XV of Page of Reason, a newsletter of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS), Iona University, New Rochelle, NY! Find more information about the ITPS and our activities at our Research Portal, theitps.org and follow us on Twitter @TheITPS.
Common Acts
To kick off Women’s History Month, on March 6, 2023 at 6:00 PM in LaPenta Business 105, Dr. Rachel Walker (Assistant Professor, University of Hartford) will join the ITPS-Thomas Paine Cottage Museum author series to discuss themes and topics from her new book, Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Dr. Walker will discuss themes from the book, and ITPS Public Historian Dr. Michael Crowder will moderate an audience Q & A session. The event is in-person and hybrid via Zoom, so mark your calendars near and far!
Common Sounds
We are very excited to announce that Season 3 of ITPS Pod “Public History in a Virtual Age” will go live in March! A collaboration with the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society, the Center’s Curatorial Scholar in Women’s History Jeanne Gutierrez, Dr. Kellen Heniford, ITPS Director Dr. Nora Slonimsky, this season’s episodes are not-to-be-missed!
Common Views
To celebrate Black History Month 2022, the ITPS and Iona University hosted Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Ratcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) in conversation with journalist, author, and novelist Christopher J. Farley about her book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. Watch their fascinating and enlightening conversation here!
Common Campus
In January, Iona University dedicated the Kelly School for Health Sciences at Iona’s new campus in Bronxville, N.Y. The Kelly Center for Health Sciences will serve as the flagship building of the New York-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences. Iona University President Seamus Carey, Ph.D., dedicated “This building and this campus” as “wellsprings of hope, not only for the students who will study here, but for the people and communities they will serve. The students who pass through this school and this building will make their mark on the world by providing health care with compassion.”
Common Facts
Thanks to recent, generous donations, our Lapidus Collection of Revolutionary Era historiography is growing rapidly! We’ve begun a series of “Classic Covers” on ITPS social media, and this edition of Common Facts is inspired by this campaign. Name the author and title of the book in this snippet image: