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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In The History of Halloween, Naveah and her two brothers learn about this history from two mysterious Jack-o-lantern-headed figures who claim to have celebrated Halloween for centuries. Through their stories, the siblings learn the origins of many common Halloween traditions in the United States, including trick-or-treating, costumes, and Jack-o-lanterns.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Explore the story of the Harlem Renaissance and meet some of the Black writers, artists, and other creators whose work sparked a cultural revolution.
This comic and teaching guide look at the history and social factors leading up to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s and introduces readers to prominent figures such as W.E.B. Dubois, the poets Langston Hughes, Claude MacKay, and Gwendolyn Bennett, the painter Aaron Douglas, the photographer...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This comic written by students of Arvada High School (Arvarda, CO) tells the story of the East L.A. Walkouts of 1968, detailing how thousands of Los Angeles students, legendary teacher Sal Castro, and others helped spark the Chicano movement for justice by organizing to end discriminatory practices and substandard education for Hispanic, Latinx, and Chicano students in L.A. schools.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In The Machine Never Blinks, the story of surveillance is presented from its earliest days, to help you more fully understand today's headlines about every-increasing, constant, and unrelenting monitoring and global data collection. It's a threat to your rights, privacy, dignity, and sanity. This book spans surveillance from the Trojan Horse, through 9/11 and to the so-called War on Terror, which enabled the exponential growth of government and corporate...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde,...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From the foremost historian of women cartoonists, Trina Robbins, comes an eye-catching collection of comic strips from the Roaring Twenties depicting the high-stepping Flapper the symbol of womens newfound freedom all drawn by the best female cartoonists of the era! Including Nell Brinkley, Ethel Hays, Eleanor Schorer, Edith Stevens and possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, Virginia Huget! This collection not only brings back into the spotlight...
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