Category: Miscellaneous
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Financial Literacy Friday Week 1!
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For Financial Literacy Month, we at the Press want to highlight four books related to the economic world and financial literacy that we think could guide readers toward greater knowledge of money and finance. We will be highlighting one book per week for four weeks, so make sure you check…
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Remembering the Diversely Talented Maya Angelou
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April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 Maya Angelou is best known for her work I Know Why Caged Birds Sings (1969). She and this memoir forged a path that other African American female authors would follow. The groundbreaking work made literary history, and Angelou became the first African American woman…
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Welcome to National Poetry Month!
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Poetry; it’s everywhere. It’s in our syntax and our natural rhythm, it’s in the music we can’t help but bob our heads to. I find it hiding in the book quotes I highlight and place on my wall. Many children grow up devouring the light entertainment from Shel Silverstein and…
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Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty
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Stories with horses can be found nearly everywhere you turn: Heartland, My Little Pony, The Horse and His Boy, Spirit, Secretariat, and many more. But the first in this trend of horse stories was the iconic Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, the autobiography of a highbred horse. In fact, Black…
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Coming Soon: Turn Back Before Baghdad!
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The long awaited day is almost here, the Turn Back Before Baghdad release is right around the corner! Author Laurence Jolidon takes a unique perspective on the historically significant Operation Desert storm, focusing on the role of the media in wartime and the relations between the military and civilian reporters in this title.…
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Motivation and Reception of Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey: an editor’s explanation
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We’ve talked a little bit before but, as with many books, there is still a question as to why the book was created and how the book was received. Why do you think Empey wrote this book? After his service in the war, Empey wrote a series of short stories…
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Music in Our Schools Month
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Music in Our Schools Month is a time to celebrate and advocate for children all around the world with access to a musical education. All across America every year, fifth-graders learn to play the recorder, seventh-graders pick up the cello, and high school juniors march with their tubas around the…
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While You Wait for “Turn Back Before Baghdad”
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As you may know, the Press has an upcoming release about the Persian Gulf War called Turn Back Before Baghdad. It takes place 25 years ago during Operation Desert Storm. This was a tumultuous time in which Saddam Hussein was given a choice: withdraw his troops by January 15, 1991…