Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Every May we celebrate the rich history and culture of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Browse a curated selection of fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators that we think your students will love. Find our full collection of titles for Higher Education here.

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Eve L. Ewing’s Original Sins

In Original Sins, University of Chicago professor Eve L. Ewing demonstrates that it’s in the DNA of American schools to serve as an effective and under acknowledged mechanism maintaining inequality in this country today. Ewing makes the case that we need a profound reevaluation of what schools are supposed to do, and for whom. This

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Sayles’s To Save the Man

One of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Vaclav Smil’s How the World Really Works

How the World Really Works is an essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist’s investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material

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Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, disability justice, equality in the workplace, and more, with insight on their remarkable lives that inspired others to

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz’s Life Worth Living

What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale faculty Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Josephine Quinn’s How the World Made the West

An award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.   Chapter One A Single Sail Byblos, c. 2000 BCE It is just after dawn on a warm morning about 4,000 years ago. We are at

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Do You Teach History?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which include period histories of Africa, Asia, England, Ireland, and the U.K., Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe, the U.S., and more.   Period History: Africa Period History: Asia Period History: England, Ireland, and the U.K.

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