Archive:
Here’s some unlocked books
to dive into!
The “American Experience” Embodied in the Childhood Reflections of Zitkála-Šá and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fight Book Bans: Tools for fighting book bans and resisting censorship
FAHRENHEIT 451: Insights into today’s epidemic of book banning
Banned Books Week 2024
Help keep our democracy functioning: Vote for the Right to Read
The Picture of Dorian Gray: the story of a closeted psyche
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Introduces the Books Save Lives Act
Jason Reynolds: one of Langston Hughes’ word-children
Celebrating Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Power of Books Author Series: Federico Erebia
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: a testimony of social value
Even Biographies Get Banned!
It’s Independent Bookseller Day!
Power of Books Author Series: Edward Underhill
The Color Purple: Defining Text of Womanism
Power of Books Author Series: Jamie Jo Hoang
It’s Right to Read Day, 2024!
Aphorisms Unplugged: Charity Begins at Home
It’s National Library Week 2024!
A Dual Celebration: Speech & Debate Education and Women’s History Month
Power of Books Author Series: Dr. Michael Datcher
New tool in the fight against book banning!
First Ever Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards
Joy Reid’s new book: Medgar & Myrlie!
February 7th is World Read Aloud Day!
It’s Black History Month: and the spotlight’s on Phillis Wheatley and William Wells Brown
What Actually Happens When Young People Read Disturbing Books.
Bamboozled: This Fun & Fancy Word is more important than ever
“Anatomy of a Book Banning” by Dave Eggers
Henry James’ “The Jolly Corner” and Related Thoughts: a response to “I took the road less traveled by”
Free Nationwide Digital Access to Banned Books: New York Public Library’s Teen Banned Book Club
I Took the Road Less Traveled By…
Rosa Parks Day: Ensuring Her Story is Told
It’s Native American Heritage Month: Shining a spotlight on Zitkála-Šá
Literary Devices: The Author’s Toolbox
November 1st is National Family Literacy Day!
Power of Books Author Series: Ryan Estrada
The Crucible: A serving of literary layer cake.
Stop Bullying: Books are a Powerful Tool
Banned Book Week 2023: Let Freedom Read!
Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl: an extraordinary document of adolescence.
The House on Mango Street: A bridge of unity.
Book Bans: a case study in how to push back
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15.
2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival!
Of Mice and Men: A Regular Greek Tragedy
Of Mice and Men Discussion Guide – A few conversation starters
Berlin’s Third Gender: targeted in the first Nazi book burning.
June is Pride Month
Aphorisms Unplugged: It’s a Cakewalk
Right to Read Day – April 24, 2023
Book Banning & Burning Throughout History
The New English Canaan: The first book banned in the United States
Slaughterhouse-Five: Jumbled, Jangled… and Burned.
Love Letters to the Library
Roald Dahl’s publisher back pedals.
Banned Comic Books panel discussion – Washington University in St. Louis
This Book is Banned – featured in Washington Magazine
Reclaiming Claims: What English Students Want from English Profs
The Scarlet Letter: A – for Adultery, Antinomian, or America Itself?
The Catcher in the Rye: A Twentieth-century Jeremiad
Maus: Why it Should be Unbanned.
Aphorisms Unplugged: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Show Me on the Doll Where This Book Hurt You
Aphorisms Unplugged: Go the Extra Mile.
The Lottery: Who’s the Lucky Scapegoat?
Aphorisms Unplugged: Blood is Thicker Than Water
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: They Even Banned Dorothy?!
Back to School in Plato’s Republic: Lesson Plan, or Censorship?
The Giver: A World Without Humanities
Einstein… Champion of a Liberal Arts Education?
We May Read for Enjoyment, but Literature Isn’t Written Just to Entertain Us.
Novels are Like Layer Cake – Be Sure to Get Every Bite.
If You’re Not Engaging a Book’s Symbolic Language, You Aren’t Really Reading It.
A Caboodle of Fun & Fancy Words
Aphorisms Unplugged: My Country Right or Wrong
Aphorisms Unplugged: Carpe Diem
Aphorisms Unplugged: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
