Where and when did school librarianship begin? A look at the growth, development, and challenges faced by school libraries through American history. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-08 12:30:00 UTC ]
After the Senate minority leader’s decision to help Trump avert a shutdown of the GOP’s own making, Bluesky erupted with anger and savage memes. What was perhaps the least timely book tour in American history has been postponed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-03-17 21:10:00 UTC ]
Watergate reporter says Trump is far worse than Nixon and ‘most reckless and impulsive president in American history’The Middle East and Ukraine are ablaze, the US mired in turmoil. An octogenarian president recedes from view. The threat of a second Trump term hangs like the sword of Damocles.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-20 15:39:32 UTC ]
With Vice President Kamala Harris the presumptive Democratic nominee, the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade may be the second in U.S. history with a woman atop a major party ballot. These six books, published post-Dobbs, provide insight into an issue... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ballantine signs Norah O’Donnell to write a “female-focused retelling of American history,” Jamaica Kincaid sells a book about her garden in Vermont to Timber Press, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
In the 1950s, a group of women known as the Folly Cove Designers made prints that still capture the imagination today. A simple Yankee swap in 1938 between neighbors in the quaint neighborhood of Folly Cove, in Gloucester, Massachusetts—design lessons in exchange for music instruction—became... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-08-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
In their new work of graphic nonfiction, 'Last on his Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century,' Youssef Daoudi and Adrian Matejka recreate and dissect one of the most explosively meaningful sporting events in American history. A 14-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
The author of biographies and other works and narrator of documentaries, McCullough was ‘the voice of American history’David McCullough, the Pulitzer prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from New York’s Brooklyn Bridge to American presidents John Adams and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-08 19:41:16 UTC ]
The two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize was a master storyteller who brought to life the grand sweep of time and place. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-08 16:43:22 UTC ]
Liam Francis Walsh’s graphic novel “Red Scare” revisits a chapter in American history when the fear of being labeled a communist led to rampant conformism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-10 14:04:58 UTC ]
The hearing, set for Thursday, May 19, at 10:00 a.m. ET, will focus on the "ongoing efforts to prohibit discussion in K-12 classrooms about American history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues and to punish teachers who violate vague and discriminatory state laws by discussing these topics." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
In “Music Is History,” Questlove examines pivotal songs from each of the last 50 years, creating a hybrid of American history, musicology and memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-20 13:45:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired world publishing rights to the archives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The publisher said the collection features some of the "most historically important and vital literature in American history." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
James Shapiro’s latest book examines key moments in American history in light of the themes and rhetoric of Shakespeare’s plays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-06-19 22:45:42 UTC ]
James Shapiro’s latest book examines key moments in American history in light of the themes and rhetoric of Shakespeare’s plays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-06-19 22:45:42 UTC ]
James Shapiro’s latest book examines key moments in American history in light of the themes and rhetoric of Shakespeare’s plays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-06-19 22:45:42 UTC ]
The Street is a groundbreaking work of American literature that is as relevant today as when it was published in 1946. When it won Ann Petry the Houghton Mifflin Prize for Debut Writers, the literary world was put on notice. Everyone agreed that the novel was brilliant, but, as is the case with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-06 09:47:44 UTC ]
Books on sleep, education, American history, world growth and one novel made the cut this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-10 16:00:00 UTC ]
The Christian publisher’s six-book series, True Colors, features fictional characters in stories that are based on real murders and other crimes in American history. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former FBI Director James Comey has a book dropping on Tuesday, so prepare for the president of the United States to be tweetin’. The Republican Party is already gearing up for a fight with a Trumpspeak-inspired “Lyin’ Comey” website. While it will surely be interesting and instructive to hear... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]