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History and Current Events September 2025 |
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Yale Journalism Initiative director Haley Cohen Gilliland’s compelling debut spotlights the Argentinian grandmothers who founded the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo in 1977 and stood up to their government’s military dictatorship to help locate their kidnapped grandchildren. Further reading: The Disappeared by Rebecca J. Sanford, a historical fiction novel about the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.
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| The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim WeinerPulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner follows up his National Book Award-winning Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA with a richly detailed exploration of the CIA’s shifting role in United States foreign policy following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, delivering a “singular triumph” that “should be required reading” (Kirkus Reviews). Further reading: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart. |
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| Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to... by Philip E. OrbanesBoard game designer and author Philip E. Orbanes’ (Tortured Cardboard) cinematic World War II history details the lesser-known story of how Allied military intelligence concealed tools, money, and fake identification cards in Monopoly game pieces to help servicemen escape from German prisoner-of-war camps. Try this next: Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II by Larry J. Hughes. |
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| Available in print and e-Book Journalist and spy novelist Jon Stock's disturbing true crime book utilizes medical records and firsthand accounts to detail the sinister exploits of revered British psychiatrist William Sargent (1907-1988), who preyed on his women patients by inducing comas without their consent at London’s Royal Waterloo Hospital. Try this next: The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb. |
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With Her Own Hands : Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole NehrigA rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology to our current moment.Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work has often been a way for women to exercise power. When their voices were silenced and other avenues were closed off to them, women used the tools they had--often a needle and thread--to seek freedom within the restrictive societies they lived in.
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