21 September 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power, ending China’s Hundred Days’ Reform I always love it when I find great books for...

9 September 1543: Mary Stuart crowned Queen of the Scots When Shakespeare penned the line, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” he...

I was quite literally awakened this morning not by my alarm but instead by the incessant buzzing of constant news notifications. As I...

16 July 1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, is born in Borge, Østfeld, Norway. Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment...

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...

8 May 1429: End of the English siege of the French city of Orléans Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley Nonfiction/Illustrated biography...

7 May 1919: Birthday of Eva Perón, politically powerful wife of Argentine President Juan Perón Eva Perón: First Lady of Argentina by...

2 May 1892: Manfred, Freiherr (Baron) von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") born in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland) The Red...

by Caren Stelson This oral history, which is laid out like a larger format youth nonfiction history book (as opposed to a biography),...

by Monica Brown illustrated by Julie Paschkis I was drawn to this book because a Communist Chilean poet seemed a peculiar subject for a...

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...

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...