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Spring/Summer 2026

In this issue, we feature new recoveries of texts and biographical details by graduate students in a recent EOS seminar at NEIU, two readings/performances by an Oakes Smith impersonator out on Long Island, and a promising discovery of a mass of books from Oakes Smith’s last library in a descendant’s basement in Michigan..

Fall 2025

This fall’s issue details new scholarship by Alice de Galzain, Rachael DeWitt, and Jiaming Lou. We also circulate our CFP for ALA in May 2026 and the contents of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Selected Writings—Volume III, just out in December. In the category of “material culture,” we feature photos and description of a new permanent mural featuring EOS in Patchogue, Long Island, designed and painted by Puerto Rican muralist, Rafael Algarin.

WINTER/SPRING 2025

Our Winter/Spring issue (long in coming!) offers the line-up for ALA 2025 in Boston (in the nick of time) along with features on Oakesmithian “take-up” in classrooms and online, grants offered, grants awarded, and a brief plug for the website makeover.

Spring and Summer 2024

The Spring/Summer issue for 2024 features articles on the winner of the 2024-25 Oakes Smith Society Research Fellowship, Descriptions of papers delivered at ALA (Chicago) May 24, and several updates on material research on Oakes Smith’s life and career.

EARLIER ISSUES

Winter 2024

Spring/Summer 2022

Winter 2022 and Addendum

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2020

Fall 2019

Spring 2018

Spring 2016

Fall 2015