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Tag: history
History Comics: The Stonewall Riots | Review
Three queer young people are taken back in time to the Stonewall Inn on a significant night as a way to learn about the challenges LGBTQ people have faced in recent decades.
History Comics: The Roanoke Colony | Review
A fascinating look at the history of the first English settlement in North America and the mystery of what happened to it.
Call Me Bill | Preview
Today we have a preview of a graphic novel about the short but eventful life of a 19th-century woman who left home, put on men's clothes, and took to the sea.
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History Comics: The National Parks | Review
A packed journey through changing attitudes towards settings of natural beauty and historical importance.
Review: ‘History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire’
Today Esther reviews one of the first graphic novels in First Second's new History Line.
Review: Displacement
In Kiku Hughes' 'Displacement,' a teenage girl goes back in time to the internment camp where her grandmother was held. Through her eyes, we see the everyday life of the Americans who were held in the camps and the extraordinary events that occurred there.
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Review: Anne Frank’s Diary: A Graphic Adaptation
Anne Frank's Diary is just one person's account of the Holocaust, but it's an account that many people can relate to.
Review: ‘Action Presidents’
Action Presidents #1: George Washington! Action Presidents #2: Abraham Lincoln! Written by Fred Van Lente, illustrated by Ryan Dunlavey HarperCollins, $9.99 each Ages 8-12 The team behind Action Philosophers! have returned with an entertaining look at key men and events in American history, beginning with the two most famous Presidents. The attitude behind the series […]
Review: The Bridge
If you’re a New Yorker, the Brooklyn Bridge is a majestic sight that regularly comes into view. It has made its appearance in fiction (for instance, in The Alienist by Caleb Carr, which was recently adapted for TV). For me, as a New Yorker, the bridge carries lots of good memories, like the huge fireworks […]
Review: Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I
Though it’s been a very long time since I’ve been in school, I don’t think I’m stretching things by saying that World War I is rushed through in history class. That’s one of the reasons I so enjoyed Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales. Treaties, Trenches, Mud and Blood. I basically learned that there was a huge […]
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