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All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for U.S. Women
Kaitlin Sidorsky analyzes how many more women are appointed, rather than elected, to political office.
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The “Write” Stuff Family Activities
Meet award-winning authors and illustrators and engage in hands-on activities that explore methods and unveil strategies they use to integrate research in their works.
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The “Write” Stuff Author Conversations
Join award-winning authors and illustrators to learn about the writing, illustration, and research that go into making a book.
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Arthur Brooks on "Love Your Enemies"
President of the American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Brooks, will discuss his new book, "Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt."
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Senator Tom Cotton at the Nixon Library
Before he was the U.S. Senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton was a platoon leader with the storied 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment— “The Old Guard” — on combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
In Stony the Road, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War.
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard
In 1946 an African American veteran was removed from a bus, arrested, beaten, and blinded. Richard Gergel details the impact of Woodard’s blinding as the racial awakening of President Truman.
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
In "A Good American Family," David Maraniss recounts his family’s ordeal during the Red Scare of the 1950s.
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Author Susan Ware looks beyond the national leadership and gives voice to the thousands of women who protested, petitioned, and insisted on their rights
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between
Author Michael Dobbs tells the powerful story of German Jews from the village of Kippenheim who sought American visas to escape Nazi Germany.