Explore a little-known true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln in today’s nonfiction spotlight! THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President–and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy […]
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Nonfiction Spotlight: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS (8/28/19)
In today’s nonfiction spotlight, we learn about confronting the evils of the past with Susan Neiman’s LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil. In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’s LEARNING FROM THE […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: EQUALITY by Charles Postel (8/21/19)
Prize-winning historian Charles Postel explores the roots of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today in EQUALITY: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896. The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SHERLOCK
Art imitates life in the case of the ultimate man of mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice in all. In THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SHERLOCK: […]
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