February Services News

Black History Month is celebrated in February. Whether you're looking for information on current leaders in the African-American community, black celebrities and popular culture icons, the history of slavery, or biographies of history's most powerful and influential black leaders, these resources will help find the information you need when researching Black History. African American History Online is a premier database filled with images, biographies, slave narratives, maps, video and audio clips, timelines and all things pertaining to African American history.

A couple great Internet based resources include: The African American History & Heritage Site features teacher toolkits for grades K–12 with resources for Black History Month and beyond. Britannica offers a free set of black-history-related source documents, learning guides, and multimedia files for all age groups.

Waggoner Library's Research Guide to African American History provides detailed information about our African American history collection.

In February we also celebrate President's Day, a chance to honor our Presidents. My Fellow Americans is a collection of the most important speeches of America's presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. It comes with audio CD's. Facts about the Presidents contains information about the lives, backgrounds, and terms of office of every American president, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

Waggoner Books and Resources

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New book!

Autism's False Prophets: Bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure is a work by Paul A. Offit, M.D., the chief of Infectious Diseases and Dir. of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as Professor of Vaccinology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to the Autism Science Foundation. Dr. Offit's book
"is a compelling story of heart-broken parents, understandably desperate for an explanation of autism, being taken in by false hopes unsupported by genuine science...Are public policies to be determined by evidence and reason or by emotions that, however intense they may be, have nothing to do with reality?"- Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason.
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