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Sharon Robinson wins the 2020 Grateful American Book Prize for her memoir, “Child of the Dream”

WASHINGTON, DC, Sep 18 — Sharon Robinson is the daughter of baseball great Jackie Robinson. She is also the author...

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September 16 to September 30, 2020

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September 1 to September 15, 2020

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August 16 to August 31, 2020

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Celebrating Women and the Vote

On August 26, 1920, Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby, signed the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution into the law...

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July 1 to July 15, 2020

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NASA Names Headquarters After Its First Black Female Engineer,
Mary Jackson

By Allyson Waller for The New York Times NASA announced on Wednesday that it would name its Washington, D.C., headquarters...

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June 1 to June 15, 2020

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‘Remember the Ladies’… [we] ‘will not hold ourselves bound
by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
…Abigail Adams, 1776

Universal suffrage came during a time of widespread heartache. The movement to win the vote for women, already in its...

Assessment shows history deficit in nation’s classrooms looms large; so does illiteracy. Is there a causal relationship?

Six years ago, the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] revealed an impressive improvement in knowledge about...

2020 Grateful American Book Prize Accepting Submissions

Despite the coronavirus crisis that has upended everything, we plan to move forward with 2020 Grateful American Book Prize competition.

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April 16 to April 30, 2020

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