WV Humanities Council CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 15, 1861: In the aftermath of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Union forces under the ...
New Year’s resolution: Read more books. I don’t mean books on screens, which I do read. I don’t mean audiobooks, which I listen to. I mean books printed on compressed cellulose, a medium that can give you a paper cut. The goal is not to force more reading. I read all day long. It’s ...
Missouri achieved a dubious new status recently: It broke the top three in the list of U.S. states that have most egregiously moved to ban books from school libraries. That’s according to a recent report by the nonprofit Pen America, which charts the nation’s troubling slide toward ...
Book banning and burning is nearly as old as civilization itself — with evidence of manuscripts being burned dating back to the B.C.s — and is often done for the same reasons: politics, religion and “morality” (in quotes because its definition is so subjective). In 200s B.C., ...
“Under the twinkling lights of Starbrook Elementary School, happy laughter bubbled up from room 241. This was Mrs. Pickleberry’s 4th-grade classroom,” begins South Preston teacher Danielle Albright’s recently self-published children’s book, "Marigold Worries." The book tells the ...
The 41st Banned Books Week begins today. Booksellers, librarians and teachers come together for this national event to encourage people to recognize or read banned books and learn about the history of book bans throughout the United States. Banned Books Week dates back to 1982, originally ...