Tag: History
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Celebrate Women’s History Month 2023 at MCPL
March is Women’s History Month! The 2023 theme–“Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories”–encourages recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, and more. Please join us online for an array of events celebrating women’s history and accomplishments in […]
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Celebrate Black History Month 2023 at MCPL
Black History Month at MCPL February is Black History Month, and MCPL has online resources, books, and events to help you learn and celebrate! If you’re looking to explore and research online we’ve got some wonderful, authoritative resources for you. The Oxford African-American Studies Center contains over 6,000 biographies, more than 10,000 articles, and hundreds of maps, documents, images, […]
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Celebrate Women’s History Month at MCPL
March is Women’s History Month! Our 2021 theme–Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to be Silenced–continues to celebrate the suffrage centennial. Please join us online for an array of events celebrating women’s history and accomplishments in all areas of life. Beyond the 19th: The Equal Rights Amendment – Virtual – in observance of Women’s History MonthThursday, […]
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Celebrate Black History Month 2021 at MCPL
Black History Month at MCPL February is Black History Month, and MCPL has free online resources, books, and events to help you learn and celebrate! If you’re looking to explore and research online we’ve got some wonderful, authoritative resources for you. The Oxford African-American Studies Center contains over 6,000 biographies, more than 10,000 articles, and hundreds of maps, documents, […]
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Middle School Homework Resources
Need to do research for homework? Check out these MCPL e-resources! These are authoritative resources- the library pays for them, so they’re free to you with your library card. Don’t have a library card? Get one here. World Book Online (K–12) Research, Science, History Ben’s Guide Civics, Election Information,& U.S. Government documents Explora Secondary School […]
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Celebrate Black History Month 2019
Did you know that February is Black History Month? MCPL has free online resources, books, and events to help you learn and celebrate! If you’re looking to explore and research online we’ve got some wonderful, authoritative resources for you. The Oxford African American Studies Center online database is focused “on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African […]
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Celebrate and Discover with a Good Book
A great way to celebrate Black History Month is with a good book. Of the many and varied history books by or about people of African descent that the African American Book Discussion Group of Rockville Memorial Library has read and discussed over the past 15 years, there are three that stood out for me. These three […]
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Streaming Royal History
At year’s end I noticed that alongside all the Best Books of the Year lists from major newspapers and websites there were just as many, if not more, lists of the best TV shows for streaming. The new age of streaming means we are no longer tied to the TV Guide calendar and need never […]
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Resistance in World War II
German soldiers on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, 1940 Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson is my favorite nonfiction book of the year so far. Subtitled Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War, Olson’s book is the inspiring story of the European leaders who fled to London to organize resistance […]