A Dangerous Act of Kindness by LP Fergusson was chosen for the Big Library Read for the period, June 17, 2019 to July 1, 2019. The novel is a work of historical fiction as well as a romance. The story is set in England during and after World War II from the years 1939 to… Read More »
March is Women’s History Month. As in Black American History Month and Native American Heritage Month, libraries across the United States will feature specialized reading lists, lectures, exhibits, workshops, and cultural events about women this month. Reading a book about women or by a woman, in particular, may not be a part of one’s reading… Read More »
February is Black American History Month. Your local library may feature a collection of books, a display of old photographs, historic documents, lectures, creative workshops, and/or performances for the occasion. Check your local library’s website and online calendar to find out what it is doing for Black American History Month. Also, your library’s website may… Read More »
Small Wolf, by Nathaniel Benchley, is both children’s literature and historical fiction. The story is about a first contact between Native Americans and Europeans on the island of Manhattan. The story does not go far enough in detail to describe the harm to Native Americans caused by immigrants. An e-audiobook version of this story on… Read More »
According to the Library of Congress and the Los Angeles Public Library, November is Native American Heritage Month. Check with your local library, because there may be cultural enrichment events and recommended reading lists posted on your local library’s website. Sometimes, librarians will feature select landmark books on display next to the entrances. Here are… Read More »
The Los Angeles Public Library will be closed for Monday, October 9, 2017 in observance of Indigenous Peoples Day. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles City Council voted on August 30, 2017 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day and Italian Americans weren’t happy about losing a day of remembrance for… Read More »
Almost every American high school and college graduate in the United States has heard of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but most have never read it. Those of us, who know of it, learn about it through the interpretations of textbook authors. I have listened to an e-audiobook version of The… Read More »
Commercials are designed in such a way to make us want things we don’t really need. We unwittingly become brainwashed into believing that the commercials’ products will make us cool, popular, happy, successful, glamorous, famous, or attractive to others. Commercials make us believe their products will solve our problems. When you read Thomas E. Woods’… Read More »
The Silence of Our Friends, by authors, Mark Long and Jim Demonakos with art by Nate Powell, is a graphic novel about real events that occurred during the Black American Civil Rights Era. When you read the Author’s Note at the end of the book, you will discover that one of the authors, Mark Long,… Read More »
If you don’t have time to read a book about Halloween for your research paper or for your own curiosity, I recommend you watch this documentary about it, The Haunted History of Halloween, produced for the History Television Network by Jeff Swimmer in 1997. The DVD is 50 minutes long according to its packaging. If… Read More »