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MORE 'HISTORY' POSTS

    Talking With Kids About 9/11, a guest post by Saadia Faruqi

    Amanda MacGregor, September 1, 2021 | Uncategorized

    "In my book YUSUF AZEEM IS NOT A HERO, I explore many aspects of a post 9/11 world and how they affected my community."

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    Joy, Connection and Community: Finding Pride in Books During a Pandemic, a conversation between Robin Stevenson and Tom Ryan

    Amanda MacGregor, May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized

    Robin Stevenson and Tom Ryan talk about writing "a big queer Canadian YA novel" together.

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    Book Review: No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves by Lee Wind

    Amanda MacGregor, April 1, 2021 | Uncategorized

    A really interesting read with a conversational tone, vibrant format, and so much historical information. A necessary addition to collections.

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    Why I Wrote Strongman. Facts Matter. So Does History, a guest post by Kenneth C. Davis

    Amanda MacGregor, January 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

    What makes a country fall to a dictator? How does an entire nation follow an authoritarian leader –a Strongman—down a dangerous and deadly path? How does democracy die?

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    Questioning Your History Lessons, a guest post by Diana Pinguicha

    Amanda MacGregor, December 3, 2020 | Guest Post, Uncategorized

    Pinguicha urges readers to question history, ask who wrote the stories, and present and amplify the narratives that have been ignored, hidden, and distorted.

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    Digging for the Truth, a guest post by Lilliam Rivera

    Amanda MacGregor, September 15, 2020 | Uncategorized

    Lilliam Rivera explains why she decided to find ways to incorporate history in her young adult novels as a way to let characters explore their cities through a historical lens.

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    Past as Present, Present as Past, a guest post by J. Anderson Coats

    Amanda MacGregor, May 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

    Becoming anything is hard. Rebuilding when the pieces are shattered so small is a whole different way of becoming.

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    Book Review: Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown

    Amanda MacGregor, September 5, 2019 | Book Reviews

    Though a bit of a disappointment, I still think this is worthwhile to have in collections just for the fact that it makes history accessible to readers who may otherwise give it a pass and because it does a worthy job of educating readers' on this awful pandemic.

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    How History (and Librarians) Inspire Freedom of the Press, a guest post by Mary Cronk Farrell

    Amanda MacGregor, January 10, 2019 | Guest Post

    Mary Cronk Farrell joins us to talk about her new book, Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII, discriminatory assignments, and the importance of the press.

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    Book Review: Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager and Zoe More O’Ferrall

    Amanda MacGregor, May 23, 2017 | Book Reviews

    Publisher’s description This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG. World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals—and you’ve never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep […]

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