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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution. This is the story of the p rejudice that faced black men and women in America's armed forces during World War II, and a look at those who gave their lives in service of a country where they lacked the most basic rights.
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Robert F. Sibert Medal Acceptance Speech: Too Many Stories
About three years ago, the author started writing a book. It opened late one night in San Francisco, November 1870, as two dusty miners walk into the office of a prominent businessman, George Roberts. Introducing themselves as Philip Arnold and John Slack, the visitors glance nervously around the room. Arnold pulls out a small leather bag, saying he and his friend need somewhere to stash it until banks open in the morning. Roberts asks what's in the bag; the men won't say. Roberts insists. Finally, reluctantly, Arnold opens the bag and tilts it and out pours a cascade of uncut diamonds. There's no way to know what these guys were thinking at any point along the line, making it tough to build a compelling nonfiction narrative around them.
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The notorious Benedict Arnold : a true story of adventure, heroism, & treachery
Biography of Benedict Arnold.
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This Is MAJOR
Sheinkin shares his experience speaking at the Horn Book event in Boston. His book The Notorious Benedict Arnold has been selected as the Boston Globe--Horn Book Award winner for nonfiction. He talked about his passion for this very nerdy thing he was starting to figure out how to do, and Roger Sutton and everyone at the Horn Book--everyone in the place--made him feel so welcome and encouraged.
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Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team
\"A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story of how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Louis's Lightbulb Lesson (and Other Advice for Textbook Writers)
In this article, the author reflects on his work as a textbook writer. Given that knowledge is memorable when it is related to engaging stories, the author wonders if it is possible to turn the history of our great nation into such tales to motivate children's learning. Attempts to make his textbook writing more vivid, however, are met with a whole world of unwritten rules. These rules dictate which stories must be told and which stories can never be told. It's also a compilation of more subtle guidelines about how stories should be told, which characters, quotes, and details to emphasize, which to finesse, which to avoid. The result of these prohibitions is that textbooks are created in an atmosphere of intense fear. The single greatest fear is that something in a textbook will be seen as unbalanced, upsetting, or offensive by someone somewhere in the United States. An expert knowledge of all the objections that have been made in the past gives editors the invaluable ability to look at a manuscript and be preemptively offended on behalf of others. They can cut potentially troublesome stories or details before any text leaves the office, so textbook authors always end up choosing from the same old list of stories. The author asks, \"Are these the pieces most likely to engage and inspire young readers?\" Not necessarily, he concludes. Instead, they're the stories that have been used hundreds of times without causing trouble.
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Bomb : graphic novel : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Profiles and Perspectives: Louis's Lightbulb Lesson (and Other Advice for Textbook Writers)
In this article, the author reflects on his work as a textbook writer. Given that knowledge is memorable when it is related to engaging stories, the author wonders if it is possible to turn the history of our great nation into such tales to motivate children’s learning. Attempts to make his textbook writing more vivid, however, are met with a whole world of unwritten rules. These rules dictate which stories must be told and which stories can never be told. It’s also a compilation of more subtle guidelines about how stories should be told, which characters, quotes, and details to emphasize, which to finesse, which to avoid. The result of these prohibitions is that textbooks are created in an atmosphere of intense fear. The single greatest fear is that something in a textbook will be seen as unbalanced, upsetting, or offensive by someone somewhere in the United States. An expert knowledge of all the objections that have been made in the past gives editors the invaluable ability to look at a manuscript and be preemptively offended on behalf of others. They can cut potentially troublesome stories or details before any text leaves the office, so textbook authors always end up choosing from the same old list of stories. The author asks, “Are these the pieces most likely to engage and inspire young readers?” Not necessarily, he concludes. Instead, they’re the stories that have been used hundreds of times without causing trouble.
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Abraham Lincoln : pro wrestler
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike.
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