The “American Experience” Embodied in the Childhood Reflections of Zitkála-Šá and Laura Ingalls Wilder
November is National Native American Heritage Month, making it prime time for the following piece by guest essayist Maggie Speck-Kern, an essay on the American experience as embodied in the childhood reflections of Zitkála-Šá (pronounced Zit-KAH-la-shah) and Laura Ingalls Wilder during America's pioneer era. M any attempts have been made to define the “American experience,” including extensive journalistic... Read More.
Fight Book Bans: Tools for fighting book bans and resisting censorship
F or the past several years, censorship has swept through schools and public libraries across the United States. According to PEN America’s ‘Banned in the USA’ reports, there have been more than 10,000 book bans in 42 states – both red and blue – since 2021. [1] This nationwide campaign is being driven by a small, but vocal minority who... Read More.
FAHRENHEIT 451: Insights into today’s epidemic of book banning
R ay Bradbury’s iconic dystopian work Fahrenheit 451 offers compelling insights into today’s epidemic of book banning. The progression of events within the text parallels how this scourge of book bans has unfolded. And, the predictive nature of Bradbury’s observations makes the correlations between them all the more captivating. The work’s opening lines makes it immediately clear that we’re... Read More.
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