by bertbaby | Jun 9, 2014 | Book Reviews
The titular year that was finds Brown vs. Board of Education coinciding with a season in which two of baseball’s best African-American players – Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants and Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians – dominated the major...
by bertbaby | Jun 9, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 9: The first American book to be copyrighted — John Barry’s The Philadelphia Spelling Book, Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New — was registered on this day in 1790.
by bertbaby | Jun 8, 2014 | Book Reviews
Alan Weisman’s Countdown asks — and potentially answers — the big question: how can we ensure that human life has a future on Earth?
by bertbaby | Jun 8, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 8: On this day in 1880 Fyodor Dostoevsky delivered his speech at the unveiling of the Pushkin Monument in Moscow.
by bertbaby | Jun 7, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 7: On this day in 1977 Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus was published, and on this day in 1980 Henry Miller died.
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