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History and Current Events March 2020
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| What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She by Dennis BaronWhat it is: a playful yet thought-provoking deep dive into the history and politics of pronoun usage, written by Guggenheim fellow and linguistics professor Dennis Baron.
Did you know? Although gender-neutral pronouns are a hot topic right now, they've been around for centuries: ou, the earliest documented gender-neutral pronoun, was first used in 1789.
Don't miss: the annotated chronology of more than 250 gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns that concludes the volume. |
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| Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, editorsWhat it is: an incisive collection of essays commemorating the centennial of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Topics include: immigration; intellectual freedom; racial discrimination.
What sets it apart: Well-known writers including Marlon James, Neil Gaiman, Jacqueline Woodson, Charlie Jane Anders, and Salman Rushdie offer insights and personal connections to some of the organization's most hard-fought battles. |
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| The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth CobbsWhat it's about: During World War I, 223 American women enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and served as switchboard operators in France. Denied veteran's benefits after the war and classed as civilian employees, it took them more than 60 years to be formally recognized for their accomplishments.
For fans of: Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures.
Reviewers say: "A fresh, well-researched contribution to military and gender history" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. TolerWhat it is: a spirited exploration of women warriors, many of them from non-Western countries, who "have been pushed into the shadows, hidden in the footnotes, or half-erased."
Featuring: the Trung sisters of Vietnam, who led an uprising to drive the Chinese out of their homeland; Buffalo Calf Road Woman, the Northern Cheyenne woman who felled Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn; mestiza military leader Juana Azurduy de Padilla, who defended Bolivia from Latin American colonization; Hausa queen Amina, who led a three-decade campaign of territorial expansion in present-day Nigeria. |
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| Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy... by Lynne OlsonStarring: French Resistance operative Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, aka "Hedgehog," who led a spy network of thousands in occupied France and whose efforts crucially helped secure an Allied victory on D-Day.
Read it for: evocative period detail, white-knuckle cat-and-mouse games, and dramatic political intrigue.
Don't miss: Fourcade's multiple escapes from captivity. |
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| Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War by Samantha SeipleWhat it's about: how Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's experiences as a Civil War nurse shaped her as a writer and bolstered her dedication to the abolitionist movement.
Who it's for: Alcott fans, Civil War buffs, and teen readers will all find much to appreciate in this engaging adult debut written by young adult nonfiction author Samantha Seiple (Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska's WWII Invasion). |
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