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protest is patriotic

Jan

23

2026

Attention: An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Omar El Akkad

In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …

Apr

4

2025

Book cover of "The Small and Mighty" by Sharon McMahon; ivory background, woman's head profile in the American flag

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon

In this patriotic, inspiring, and untampered compilation, McMahon chronicles the extraordinary lives of ordinary Americans. We learn about teachers like Virginia Randolph, who created schools for children in the rural south. We learn about Inez Milholland, Maria De Lopez, and Rebecca Brown Mitchell and their decades’ long fight for women’s suffrage. We learn about Senator …

Mar

18

2025

Rise Up: Powerful Protests in American History written by Rachel C. Katz and illustrated by Sophie Bass

 What an inspiring reminder that protest can be patriotic! Explore 25 historical moments of American resistance that helped shape our nation in the illustrated children’s book Rise Up!: Powerful Protests in American History. Today’s also the on-sale day for the much-anticipated Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping. NPR did a great piece on …

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