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Sharon Robinson: Her Recollections About Growing up as the
Daughter of Legendary Baseball Player, Jackie Robinson

EDITORS NOTE: Sharon Robinson, daughter of iconic baseball player Jackie Robinson, has been awarded the 2020 Grateful American Book Prize...

Judges Gear up for the 2021 Grateful American Book Prize

The Grateful American Book Prize is accepting submissions for 2021. The award is given annually to authors who have created...

Author Sharon Robinson and David Bruce Smith Discuss her Memoir, “Child of the Dream”

Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball legend, Jackie Robinson, has won the 2020 Grateful American Book Prize for “Child of the Dream:...

History Matters
October 1 to October 15, 2020

California’s Yosemite Valley, with its Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, was a pristine home for Native Americans until the Gold...

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...

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...

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...

‘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.

History Matters Special Edition: The Spanish Flu, Polio and COVID-19

The past is prologue to the future, and–here we are–102 years later, in the midst of another calamitous pandemic. The...

History Matters
March 15 to March 31, 2020

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future