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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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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Sep 7, 20222 min read
Live Your Passion Every Day
Diary of a Young Naturalist By Dara McAnulty Pages: 222 Ages: 12+ Subject: Memoir, Natural History, Family, Autism, Activism Publisher:...
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Aug 12, 20222 min read
Breaking Art's Glass Ceiling
Heroic Women of the Art World By Eugene H. Pool Pages: 200 Ages: 12+ Subject: Art History Publisher: Tumblehome Despite its – in my...
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Jul 17, 20202 min read
Rome Aflame
18 July 64 A.D.: The Great Fire of Rome The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City by Joseph J. Walsh Pages: 192 Series:...
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Jul 17, 20204 min read
Explorers' Sketchbooks: A Just Because Book
Sometimes while searching for books for one post I come across a title that doesn't really fit but is too wonderful not to highlight....
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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 9, 20204 min read
United coast to coast!
10 May 1869: Transcontinental railroad completed as the ceremonial final spike is driven at Promontory Point, Utah Iron Rails, Iron Men,...
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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 5, 20203 min read
The Fall of the Philippines
6 May 1942: Last Allied bastion in the Philippines, the American garrison on Corregidor Island, surrenders to the Japanese The...
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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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May 1, 20202 min read
Reach for the Skies!
by Elizabeth Mann (Wonders of the World Book) Nonfiction/Engineering Recommended for: Dialectic students 48 pages Mikaya Press This is a...
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Apr 27, 20203 min read
Taking to the high seas!
28 April 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five friends launch the raft Kon Tiki into the Pacific Ocean to test a theory that humans could have...
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Apr 26, 20202 min read
The Shores of Tripoli
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger Nonfiction 251...
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Oct 14, 20192 min read
Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest
Chocolate: Riches from the Rain Forest by: Robert Burleigh Most books that I read and review are a result of a conscious choice based...
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Oct 13, 20193 min read
Spooked! How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
Spooked! How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow In 1938, in the United...
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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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