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SLJ‘s August 2016 Popular Picks feature some great titles that your kids and teens will be clamoring for. This month, check out the latest from Nicola Yoon; Dan Santat’s newest early reader, part of Mo Willems’s “Elephant and Piggie Like Reading” series...

Please welcome guest author Lawrence M. Denton. Denton, an authority on the secession crisis, is the author of  “A Southern Star for Maryland: Maryland and the Secession Crisis,” and “William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent...

John Malvin had come a long way to get to Cincinnati—hundreds of miles on foot, then hundreds more in a flatboat, floating down the Ohio River. His journey must have seemed longer still given that Malvin was a black man living in 19th-century America...

Marion Algier – AskMarion (reposted in part by request) The Fourth of July places us smack in the middle of America’s Patriotic Season. With unemployment still a reality for so many Americans and the fear of uncertainty which includes possible...

November 8 In History 30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his Flavian predecessors. 641: “Jews were...