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When defining the scope of your History Day project, it is best to begin with general reference resources, like encyclopedias, that can provide background information for your chosen topic. To access these websites, you will need to login using your DBRL library card number. Your PIN is your birthdate (MMDDYYYY). If you have questions or encounter difficulties logging…
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“Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.” – Michelle Obama Happy Women’s History Month! Celebrate this month by picking up your next great read about women from both past and present. Too often in history books, women are presented as bystanders, if they…
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Black History Month is drawing to a close, and we’ve featured a number of great titles this month that showcase Black stories that you might not have heard before. For our last post this month, we thought it would be nice to highlight Black creators who are making interesting and unique stories through the mediums…
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Happy Black History Month! This month is dedicated to celebrating all of the accomplishments and struggles that Black Americans have gone through over the years, and continue to go through to this very day. The last few years have been particularly eye-opening for many people, as the extent of racism was put on full display…
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One of my favorite things about learning history is that it adds new dimension to the things I already enjoy, and this is especially true for food history. For example, I have always loved pumpkin pie, but it hits me differently knowing that I’m eating Sri Lankan tree bark mixed with a spicy root that…
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“History is written by the victors.” -Winston Churchill (attributed) What If… ? The hallmark of sapience, from which we derive our taxonomic name homo sapiens, is hypothesis. The ability to plot possible effects from our choices is the greatest strength our enlarged frontal lobe grants us; to be able to plan for possibilities allows us…
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Last month my theme was books I wouldn’t normally reach for first (meaning anything not fantasy). This time my theme is nonfiction because these three looked so amazing that I couldn’t resist highlighting them. If you find yourself wanting to try more nonfiction but are unsure where to start, these are all excellent options.