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PATRIOTIC GORE (816 pp.)—Edmund Wilson—Oxford ($8.50). Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns ...
An auditorium of eager kids in Washington ... The types of books she often writes—historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters in World War II—have become some ...
All books in the system that feature "gender ideology ... Pickel’s memo also banned a biography on Albert Cashier, a Civil War veteran, from elementary school reading. Cashier was born a girl ...
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, the writer Samuel Osgood considered one question ... Wellman, a decade-plus afterward, insisted that children’s books should impart on kids “the standards of ...
Widely known for his books about local ... Women and Children of the Civil War” in 2021 and “Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York” in 2022. The 56-year-old Queens native and Gardiner ...
The moment was a pivotal turning point in the civil rights movement. Another source told the outlet that a school in Europe under the DoDEA's purview was forced to remove books that discuss ...