Facing History Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Facing History on X
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Bell HooksFacing HistoryIn this piece, Rethinking Schools editors weave bell hooks powerful words from her poignant and revolutionary book Teaching to Transgress with their own powerful testimonies on critical teaching. https://t.co/wGTglox2Ar
Paperback, 1994
$48.95$24.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. BlightFacing HistoryIn this course, offered by @Gilder_Lehrman –written by Pulitzer winning scholar David Blight, students will learn about the nature of the life, work, and thought of the nineteenth century abolitionist, orator, and author Frederick Douglass. https://t.co/ebSaLMdBmG https://t.co/h0kKu4h3Li
Paperback, 2020
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An American Sunrise: Poems
Joy HarjoFacing HistoryJoin us 4/26 for a conversation w/ Joy Harjo, the 23rd US Poet Laureate. She'll share a selection of poems & together we'll reflect on the challenges the pandemic has brought & underlying inequities it has exacerbated. RSVP: https://t.co/WaE0jqUJ2A Spons by @JacksonNational https://t.co/TQ2psBl8P8
Paperback, 2020
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Virginia HamiltonFacing HistoryVirginia Hamilton wrote 41 books in her lifetime, and is often lauded as the “most distinguished author of children's books”. This lesson by @FreedomCenter will give you a blueprint for teaching one of her most famous books: The People Could Fly https://t.co/TSoXkSxwBH https://t.co/piSUpbkRHX
Paperback, 1993
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Charles BukowskiFacing HistoryUsing poems from Marianne Moore, Charles Bukowski, and Archibald MacLeish students will interrogate poems on poetry. Asking: What is poetry? Why is it important? And form their own opinions on the importance of poetry as a form of writing: https://t.co/tGjzCVuTQs
Paperback, 2018
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art SpiegelmanFacing HistoryDisturbed & saddened by McMinn County School Board's decision to ban Art Spiegelman's #Maus. To quote @davidperry via @cnn "We need to be unsettled by history, especially if presented by a well-trained teacher with a thoughtful supporting curriculum." https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/opinions/maus-ban-holocaust-teaching-spiegelman-perry/index.html
Hardcover, 2001
$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Marianne MooreFacing HistoryUsing poems from Marianne Moore, Charles Bukowski, and Archibald MacLeish students will interrogate poems on poetry. Asking: What is poetry? Why is it important? And form their own opinions on the importance of poetry as a form of writing: https://t.co/tGjzCVuTQs
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part I: My Father Bleeds History (Maus #01)
Art SpiegelmanFacing HistoryDisturbed & saddened by McMinn County School Board's decision to ban Art Spiegelman's #Maus. To quote @davidperry via @cnn "We need to be unsettled by history, especially if presented by a well-trained teacher with a thoughtful supporting curriculum." https://t.co/qacuGnvTaD
Hardcover, 1986
$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Harlan
Bernice L. McFaddenFacing HistoryIn her work of fiction, The Book of Harlan, author Bernice L. McFadden weaves a tale spanning from Harlem to Paris telling the story of Black jazz musician Harlan who while on tour in Paris, is captured by Nazi’s. Read more from @washingtonpost: https://t.co/zUhM2dpXHn
Paperback, 2016
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
David R. RoedigerFacing HistoryAuthor and co-host of the “Seizing Freedom” podcast @KidadaEWilliams joins us July 18 to discuss her research on the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Register for free and be part of this timely and important conversation. http://ow.ly/hhYS50Jwlha
Paperback, 2015
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book