21 September 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power, ending China’s Hundred Days’ Reform I always love it when I find great books for...

I was quite literally awakened this morning not by my alarm but instead by the incessant buzzing of constant news notifications. As I...

Diary of a Young Naturalist By Dara McAnulty Pages: 222 Ages: 12+ Subject: Memoir, Natural History, Family, Autism, Activism Publisher:...

16 July 1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, is born in Borge, Østfeld, Norway. Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment...

10 May 1869: Transcontinental railroad completed as the ceremonial final spike is driven at Promontory Point, Utah Iron Rails, Iron Men,...

9 May 1887: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show opens in London, giving Queen Victoria and the English a look at real American cowboys and...

7 May 1919: Birthday of Eva Perón, politically powerful wife of Argentine President Juan Perón Eva Perón: First Lady of Argentina by...

6 May 1942: Last Allied bastion in the Philippines, the American garrison on Corregidor Island, surrenders to the Japanese The...

4 May 1886: Haymarket Riot in Chicago, as violence erupts between police and labor movement protesters City of Grit and Gold by Maud...

3 May 1937: American author Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Gone with the Win Gone with the Wind by Margaret...

2 May 1892: Manfred, Freiherr (Baron) von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") born in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland) The Red...

by Elizabeth Mann (Wonders of the World Book) Nonfiction/Engineering Recommended for: Dialectic students 48 pages Mikaya Press This is a...

28 April 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five friends launch the raft Kon Tiki into the Pacific Ocean to test a theory that humans could have...

Spooked! How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow In 1938, in the United...

by Caren Stelson This oral history, which is laid out like a larger format youth nonfiction history book (as opposed to a biography),...

by Monica Brown illustrated by Julie Paschkis I was drawn to this book because a Communist Chilean poet seemed a peculiar subject for a...

by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy If you have a Dialectic student who is reading A Wrinkle in Time—or just a kiddo who is a fan of...

by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer Illustrated by Gillian Newland Don’t let the picture book format fool you. This work gives a bleak...