Care Burpee
Dowager Empress Cixi
21 September 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power, ending China’s Hundred Days’ Reform I always love it when I find great books for...
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Care Burpee
Sep 9, 20225 min read
Mary, Queen of the Scots
9 September 1543: Mary Stuart crowned Queen of the Scots When Shakespeare penned the line, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” he...
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Care Burpee
Sep 8, 20225 min read
Long Live King Charles III
I was quite literally awakened this morning not by my alarm but instead by the incessant buzzing of constant news notifications. As I...
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Jul 16, 20207 min read
Racing to the Bottom of the World
16 July 1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, is born in Borge, Østfeld, Norway. Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment...
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May 8, 20202 min read
Wild West in London
9 May 1887: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show opens in London, giving Queen Victoria and the English a look at real American cowboys and...
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May 7, 20202 min read
Siege of Orléans
8 May 1429: End of the English siege of the French city of Orléans Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley Nonfiction/Illustrated biography...
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May 6, 20202 min read
Evita
7 May 1919: Birthday of Eva Perón, politically powerful wife of Argentine President Juan Perón Eva Perón: First Lady of Argentina by...
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May 1, 20202 min read
The Red Baron
2 May 1892: Manfred, Freiherr (Baron) von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") born in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland) The Red...
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Sep 29, 20193 min read
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
by Caren Stelson This oral history, which is laid out like a larger format youth nonfiction history book (as opposed to a biography),...
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Sep 29, 20192 min read
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
by Monica Brown illustrated by Julie Paschkis I was drawn to this book because a Communist Chilean poet seemed a peculiar subject for a...
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Sep 26, 20192 min read
Becoming Madeleine
by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy If you have a Dialectic student who is reading A Wrinkle in Time—or just a kiddo who is a fan of...
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Sep 15, 20192 min read
I am Not a Number
by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer Illustrated by Gillian Newland Don’t let the picture book format fool you. This work gives a bleak...
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