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Tag: History

October 17, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

All the World’s a Stage: Making Theater (and History) Fun for Teens, a guest post by Deborah Hopkinson

I hope you and young readers you know will pick up The Plot to Kill a Queen, and experience, in just a small way, the magic of theater.

September 18, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Restoring What Slavery Took Away: Ten Take-aways from Kin: Rooted in Hope, a guest post by Carole Boston Weatherford

In multi-voiced, first-person poems and dramatic scratchboard illustrations created by my son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, Kin conjures the voices and stories of our ancestors and their contemporaries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

August 18, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams

A powerful, unflinching look at the hard truths of the legacy of slavery, mental health issues, and the connection between medical neglect and racism

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History is Not Dead! A guest post by Amy Nathan

June 7, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Past events can be revisited, responded to—and sometimes even revised—as revealed in the new Second Edition of TOGETHER: An Inspiring Response to the “Separate-But-Equal” Supreme Court Decision that Divided America.

Book Review: America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger

May 9, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Immensely readable, this look at the worst and best of our history will inspire, educate, and infuriate.

Q&A with Kelly McWilliams, author of Your Planation Prom Is Not Okay

May 2, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

When someone pretends that a plantation is about love and good old-fashioned family values, it keeps us on very different wavelengths.

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Why Teens Should Read Hard History, a guest post by Lesley Younge

March 28, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Reading hard history builds empathy and intercultural competence. It allows young people to understand new and different perspectives.

A Coming of Age Quartet, a guest post by Krystal Marquis

February 3, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

What sets my novel apart is the acknowledgment of the past and its celebration of Black excellence and achievement.

The Future of Our Past, a guest post by Lesa Cline-Ransome

January 20, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

There seems like an awfully long distance between the past and future and yet, whether it is 1940 or 2040, the questions I continue to find most intriguing are timeless.  Who are we in the worst of times? What does it mean to survive? And, What do we want our world to look like?      

The Perfect Pairing: Historical Fiction & Nonfiction for Tweens, a guest post by Susan J. Austin

October 17, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Historical fiction helps [kids] see that the past is closer to the present than they ever imagined, that the lives of people who lived long ago are not so different from their own.

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