Opportunities for Learning

Local Listening and Reading

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (2024)
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas (2022)
A is for Activist by Innosato Nagara (2013)
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, Professor of American History at Harvard. (2018)
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham (2020)
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by (the late) John Lewis, United States Congressman and Civil Rights Leader (2012)
Song in a Weary Throat by Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray (1987)

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Updated) by Timothy Snyder (2020)
Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade (2024 )
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer (2022)
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2020)
Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture by Bruce Kuklick (2023)
Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines by David Pepper (2021)
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt (2018)
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About the Past by Kevin M. Cruse and Julian E. Zelizer (2022)
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)