On November 10, 1898, a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina—upset by the results of a local election and angered by the writing of the local black press—violently overthrew the newly elected government and installed their own supporters instead. This is known as a coup d’état—and it’s the only such event in American…

Happy Women’s History Month! This month our Reading into History Family Book Club is exploring the last seven years of the 72-year struggle for national women’s suffrage through Ann Bausum’s book, With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s’ Right to Vote. Through this book, we’ll learn more about the daring and sometimes…

In a little over a month, the people of the United States will be electing a new president in what is shaping up to be a truly historic election, no matter how it turns out. In honor of election season, the Reading Into History Family Book Club welcomes Neela Vaswani on Sunday, October 2 to discuss her novel-in-letters, Same Sun Here, co-authored…

Written by Rachel Walman After scouring many, many middle grade historical fiction and non-fiction books, a team of historians, educators, and families have chosen this year’s winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Children’s History Book Prize. That winning book is Echo by acclaimed author Pam Muñoz Ryan! Echo beautifully weaves together the individual stories of…