History School

In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.

The story of twenty schoolchildren on the southeastern plains of Colorado, fighting for lives that had just begun . . . Imagine being one of twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, stranded in a makeshift school bus for thirty-three hours, during the worst blizzard to hit Colorado in over fifty years. The gripping narrative of Children of the Storm leads you through this haunting experience.

How could Ian have known that taking a train to his new school would not only mean meeting another student, but also having his body taken over by someone else. Now, can they make it to the school once they make it to the Houston Train Station, where Mason and his goons are waiting? Listen today to find out.

Barnes's extremely frank and highly detailed memoir is a fast-paced tale of courage, loss, and eventual redemption that feels like someone telling you their story across the kitchen table. Above all else, this book tells the unvarnished truth of the modern-day veteran experience from a senior non-commissioned officer's point of view.

In A Canadian Shame, Darren Grimes has collected and presented overwhelming evidence which shows beyond doubt that a monster bent on the complete destruction of the Indigenous peoples of Canada (First Nations, Inuit, Metis, and all the other Aboriginal inhabitants of the land) has been devouring not only men and women, but also children of those cultures, that this monster has been doing so for hundreds of years, that this destruction has been deliberate and systematic rather than accidental or unintended.

Tatum starts with a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America. A self-described “integration baby” - she was born in 1954 - Tatum sees our growing isolation from each other as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial divide. In this ambitious, accessible audiobook, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations.

Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was 17. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.

Over her twenty-five-year career, English teacher Carol Atherton has taught generations of students texts that will be familiar to many of us from our own schooldays. But while the staples of exam syllabuses and reading lists remain largely unchanged, their significance – and their relevance - evolves with each class as they encounter them for the first time. Each chapter of Reading Lessons invites us to take a fresh look at these novels, plays and poems, revealing how they have shaped our beliefs, our values, and how we interact as a society.

When I asked a group of girls who had been at Hatherop Castle in the 1960s whether the school had had a lab in those days they gave me a blank look. 'A laboratory?' I expanded, hoping to jog their memories. 'Oh that kind of lab!' one of them said. 'I thought you meant a Labrador.' As we discover from Ysenda Maxtone Graham's quietly hilarious history of life in British girls' boarding schools between 1939 and 1979, this was a not untypical reaction.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament.

Love, Danger, and Time Itself: Can Chant Baker Save History and His Heart? As Chant faces mounting dangers and impossible decisions, he realizes that time is a fragile thing—and so is love. Will he be able to safeguard both? Not a Second Time is a riveting blend of historical action, legendary figures, and an emotional love story that transcends time. In Time on My Side (Book 7), Chant Baker faces escalating danger, time-hopping between eras while trying to protect the ones he loves. As his bond with Mary grows deeper, they both navigate a web of historical conflicts and perilous moments....

Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers to teens, how to gain control of their technology use.

James Meredith’s struggle to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962 is still remembered vividly, but the Little Rock Nine are frequently overlooked when it comes to discussing the Civil Rights Movement, despite attempting to integrate Little Rock Central High School five years earlier. For millions of kids, high school is a tumultuous time, but for the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, those years were nightmarish.

Stand Tall with Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.! In the final thrilling chapter of the Time Pedaler series, The Times They Are A-Changin', Chant Baker finds himself standing alongside history’s greatest advocates for peace and justice—Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. As he joins these legendary figures in their fight for civil rights and non-violence, Chant faces challenges that not only threaten history but also his future with Mary. Their love, tested across centuries, is stronger than ever. But as Chant’s time-traveling missions become more dangerous, the stakes rise. ...

The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever heard before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.

Zoey and her pals are back for another thrilling adventure! This time they are on board the Hindenburg! In this gripping book, Zoey, Noah, and Destiny travel back to 1937, just before the tragic explosion of the Hindenburg airship. Their mission: to find a hidden time crystal that can save the future from disaster. As they board the Hindenburg, the children witness the luxurious interior of the airship and meet fascinating passengers and crew members. Time is running out to as the search for the crystal before it's too late. The Timeouts Hindenburg is an exciting tale filled with action, ...

Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, Malala tells her story - from her childhood in the Swat Valley to the shooting, her recovery and new life in England. She's a girl who loves cricket, gossips with her best friends, and, on the day of the shooting, nearly overslept and missed an exam. A girl who saw women suddenly banned from public, schools blown up, the Taliban seize control, and her homeland descend into a state of fear and repression.

On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge the constitutionality of racial segregation in Southern public schools, an astonishing thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.Brown v. Board of Education decision.

My Hair Is Still Professional TOO!: Where are we now?, is a follow-up to the book My Hair Is Professional TOO!. This book explores where we are now with banning Black Hair Discrimination. Even with the progress of the CROWN Act, there are still many states that have yet to pass the law, and more and more Black women, men and children are facing hair discrimination in many areas of their lives. Read about the advances that have been made towards eradicating hair discrimination, the legislative progress, and how Black children have become the new target in the battle against hair ...

Zoey and the gang are back for another adventure in this exhilarating adventure story that takes you on a journey through time! In this thrilling book, Zoey, Noah, and Destiny travel back to Pompeii to find a hidden time crystal that can save the future from a fate worse than death, being frozen in time. As the kids navigate the bustling streets of Pompeii, they witness the city's vibrant culture and meet fascinating people, and get in a little bit of trouble. But as the ominous rumblings of Mount Vesuvius grow louder, the clock is ticking for the kids to find the crystal and escape before ...