Today in history: Anna Louise Strong is born, changes worlds
Strong was employed by the New York Evening Post to report on the bloody massacre and the armed guards hired by Everett mill owners to keep the IWW out of town.
Booksellers and librarians file brief in new NSA spy case
Groups urge a federal court to limit the NSA's surveillance of international electronic communications, including those relating to the purchase and use of books.
Authors and booksellers want DOJ to investigate Amazon
Amazon's business tactics have called into question the power the online retailer wields over the book industry.
It’s political: Library cards
Here's a simple way for you to help spread the ideas of an author you respect, and be a political activist at the same time: use your library card.
Victor Grossman speaks on the growing right danger in Europe
Author and journalist Victor Grossman will speak on the growing right danger in Europe as it relates to Ukraine, NATO and European Parliamentary elections.
Today in black history: Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm became an influential figure to many African-Americans and supporters of civil rights and equality, and continues to be so today.
Author calls for fight to prevent extinction of the college prof
Today only a few universities are faculty drive. Harvard and the University of Chicago are among them and are among the best institutions in America. So what happened?
Today in women’s history: Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” published
The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world's first science fiction novel.
Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women's, African-American history
Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.
Tucson bans Mexican-American studies, students walk out
On Monday, after the Tucson, Ariz. school district banned its acclaimed Mexican-American studies program, hundreds of high school students throughout the city walked out of their schools in protest.
