by envisionmg | Jun 1, 2023 | Biography, Children's Literature, Discovery List, DVD/Movie, Essays, Fiction, For Kids, Historical Fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Middle Grade Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, Romance, Watch List, YA, YA Fiction
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, which was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. This month-long...
by envisionmg | May 11, 2023 | Biography, Children's Literature, cookbooks, Discovery List, Essays, Fantasy, Fiction, For Kids, Historical Fiction, History, Middle Grade Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Reading Lists, Romance, YA, YA Fiction
May is Jewish American Heritage Month! This month gives us the opportunity to celebrate the diverse and vibrant history, culture, and contributions of Jewish Americans through the years. There area many ways to celebrate Jewish American Heritage. One way we are...
by envisionmg | Mar 15, 2023 | Biography, Discovery List, DVD/Movie, Essays, History, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, Watch List
Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California as a “Women’s History Week” in 1978, which corresponded with March 8, the International Women’s Day. In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups successfully...
by envisionmg | Feb 2, 2023 | Biography, Discovery List, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, Sci - Fi, Staff Picks
This Bookshelf does not existFebruary is Black History Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in...
by envisionmg | Feb 24, 2020 | Discovery List, History, Reading Lists, Uncategorized
Because I can not help but fall down a rabbit hole when I stumble on one, as I have been reading Lakota America, I’ve also been putting together a Plains Indian reading list. This is by no means and exhaustive list but more of a combination of new books and...
by envisionmg | Feb 21, 2020 | History, Jim Recommends
I normally wait to finish reading a book before I start righting about it on Read This but I have been enjoying Pekka Hämäläinen’s Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power so much I needed to stop halfway through and recommend it to you all. As...
