Due to weather conditions, UNH will be curtailing operations, canceling classes, and suspending normal operations effective 2pm, Friday, February 22, 2008. The University will resume normal operations at 4am on Saturday, February 23, 2008.

The library will also be closed per curtailed operations.

The Harvard Sitkoff book signing scheduled for 4 pm today in Special Collections has been cancelled due to the weather.

The book signing has been rescheduled for March 7 at 4 pm in Special Collections.

Noted Civil Rights scholar Harvard Sitkoff, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, will sign books at a celebration of the publication of his new biography about Martin Luther King Jr., “King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.”

The book signing will be held 4-6 p.m., Friday, March 7, 2008, in the Milne Special Collections, Dimond Library, 1st floor. Copies of Sitkoff’s book will be available for purchase. The event is sponsored by American Studies; African American Studies; Race, Culture, and Power; and the Department of History. It is free and open to the public.

For more information about the book signing, contact Lesley Rains at lesley.rains@unh.edu or (603) 862-2179.

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Noted Civil Rights scholar Harvard Sitkoff, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, will sign books at a celebration of the publication of his new biography about Martin Luther King Jr., “King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.”

The book signing will be held 4-6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, in the Milne Special Collections, Dimond Library, 1st floor. Copies of Sitkoff’s book will be available for purchase. The event is sponsored by American Studies; African American Studies; Race, Culture, and Power; and the Department of History. It is free and open to the public.

Sitkoff’s biography of MLK has been called the finest brief biography of the civil rights leader. It was published Jan. 3, 2008, by Hill and Wang.

“Martin Luther King Jr. certainly had a far greater impact on my life than any other public figure, and there is no one I more admired than King. I well remember the excitement I felt as a boy reading accounts of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Because of that, I got involved in the movement as a college student, and then went south briefly to march and picket and take part in the movement,” Sitkoff says.

“As a young adult, nothing exhilarated me more than King saying hello to me and shaking my hand at a civil rights demonstration in Virginia in 1962. And I’ll never forget the extraordinary jumble of emotions and thoughts that went through me as I stood in the rain on an Atlanta street as his casket went by,” he says.

For more information about the book signing, contact Lesley Rains at lesley.rains@unh.edu or (603) 862-2179.

UNH is pleased to host the final display of the traveling photography exhibition, Freedom ‘56, which commemorates the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Historic photographs by Erich Lessing capture the spirit of a brief victory from communist oppression by Hungarian demonstrators, followed by the violent Soviet invasion that re-established Hungary as part of the Soviet orbit. In 1989, Hungary emerged as a democracy following the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Contemporary photos of Budapest by Stephen Spinder complement the exhibition. Exhibition opens Feb. 14 with a reception from 4-5:30pm. Honorary Hungarian Consul General of Hungary Gabor Garai will be the guest of honor.