Heroin(e) is a documentary that focuses on the opioid crisis in Huntington, West Virginia. This film cites a lack of education in general, unemployment and hopelessness as factors contributing to the opioid crisis in this particular area of the country. Read More …
“My name is Alexander Hamilton. And there’s a million things I haven’t done But just you wait, just you wait!” With the release of Hamilton on Disney+, you may want to learn more about one of our founders. These books Read More …
NASA has renamed its Washington, D.C. headquarters in honor of Engineer Mary Jackson, one of the key “Hidden Figures” and the first African American female aerospace engineer. To read more about her and her colleagues Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn, Read More …
Let’s talk books! In the video below, Jessica talks about An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Find this item in our catalog here.
Have you ever heard of Typhoid Mary? The young-adult title Terrible Typhoid Mary: a True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbel Bartoletti tells us about Mary Mallon, a cook in turn-of-the-century New York City accused of Read More …