“the United States government long concentrated populations of American Indians on reservations, prisoners of the Civil War, and incarcerated Japanese Americans in camps.”
Category Archives: history
The Opposite of Hate by Sally Kohn
“I like the thought of my students becoming global citizens who can have a rational conversation with anyone — even people who have radically different beliefs than them. I like the idea that my students can be safer in the world if we all start connecting rather than hating.”
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
“Will we blunder by covering up our mistakes and refusing to own them, as the Soviet Union did following a failed safety test? Or, will we take responsibility for our past and present, using what we learn to make the world a better place?”
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
“It’s easy to think that when faced with evil, we will choose the side of good. But the rhetoric of evil is slippery. It creeps upon us. The only way to combat it entirely is to remain constantly vigilant.”
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
“Quanah remained a leader, but his leadership always wrenched in two different directions: his identity as a Comanche and the pull of assimilation.”
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest For the Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
“The Washington rowing crew’s story in1936 reminds us how vital connection is in the COVID-era.”
As Long as I Remain Alive & Auschwitz, Auschwitz . . .I Cannot Forget You As Long as I Remain Alive by Max Garcia
Max Garcia, a Holocaust survivor, details how he met my grandfather, a 21 year-old Army sergeant at the end of WWII.
A #BlackLivesMatter Reading List
My cousin and I discussed collaborating on a reading list. Here is what I came up with. FICTION The Wilful Girl by Anonymous (2000 BC) The Book of Thoth by Anonymous (5th – 1st Century BC) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Acebe Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo …
The Promise by Eva Schloss and Barbara Powers
“If you have young children, prepare yourself to talk to them about the world — its darkness as well as its light.”
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes
I agree with Hayes when he says that this is a natural response but that if we don’t dig into the “why” of the Holocaust “that stance blocks the possibility of learning from the subject” (xiii).
