Tag: #asianamericanhistory

• Women’s History Month Memoirs

  After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, dazzling audiences across the Roaring Twenties. In her famous banana skirt, she enraptured royalty and countless fans—Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso among them. She strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 28, 2026

  Book Suggestions

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• YA books

  The Assignment by Liza Wiemer SENIOR YEAR. When an assignment given by a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution, a euphemism used to describe the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people, Logan March and Cade Crawford are horrified. Their teacher cannot seriously expect anyone to…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 23, 2026

  Book Suggestions

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• Educate Yourself

  With these nonfiction books about underrated role models! We are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian American and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States by Naomi Hirahara This is another book in the Smithsonian Learning lab series that puts focus on thirty Asian American and Pacific Islanders that have shaped the US, just in time…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 12, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #annshen, #asianamericanhistory, #cerrieburnell, #chroniclebooks, #disabilitieshistory, #diversity, #iamnotalabel, #naomihirahara, #nonfiction, #pacificislanderhistory, #rachelreads&reviews, #revolutionarywomen, #smithsonian, #wearehere, #wideyededitions, #womenshistory