Adult

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen

Welcome back to our next installment of By Teens, For Teens. This blog post series consists of all teen-generated content. This time we have two book reviews for you to enjoy! […]

Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Events, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with African American Soldiers, Civl Rights, Domestic Relations, German Soldiers, Italian Soldiers, Jim Crow, Labor Shortage, Lectures, Prisoners of War, Race Relations, The Press, World War II

Prisoners of War Arrive During World War II, the U.S. was “home” to over 425,000 prisoners of war (POWs). They were Japanese, German and Italians from the Axis countries  captured […]

Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult

Federal Legislation After unsuccessful federal legislative attempts to approve a week during the first 10 days in May as Pacific/Asian American Heritage Week, Congress passed New York Representative Frank Horton‘s House […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with children, Chromosomes, Down syndrome, Genetic, health and wellness, law, Law Library, medical injustice, mental health, teens, undiagnosed, X and Y chromosomal variations

In 2012 the State Legislature passed HJ216 2012 which designated May as “X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month”.   Genetic Disorders X & Y Chromosomal Variations are genetic disorders. […]

Posted about 5 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult, Events

In 2004, the Virginia General Assembly designated May 14th as Colonial Founders Day.  So, I decided for this blog to give a short historical overview of Jamestown and then launch […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with african-american, Apartheid, Black History, Blood, book recommendations, children, Eugenics, Experiment, Genocide, injustice, Law Library, Medicine, Organ Trafficking, Race, Racism, Red Market, Transplant

Great strides in medical history have often been made as a result of research and experimentation, and the first human successes were arguably the result of successful experiments, often on […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with celebrations

There are holidays and observations every day of the month – so many reasons to celebrate. I’m not saying there should be cake every day, but I’m not saying there […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations

April is both National Poetry Month AND National Pet Month.  What better way to celebrate than with poetry about dogs, for dogs, and by dogs.  Check out the Academy of American Poets and The Poetry Foundation […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Lisa Crisman

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens

Spring is here, bulbs are popping, trees are budding and the birds are busy! Working with seeds and plants is a great way to relieve stress and to focus on […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Adult, Children's

With a great-great-grandmother named Margaret Mary Murphy, it was a sure bet that I would someday see Ireland. Even though over 30 years have passed since I visited, the overall […]