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Explore the issue within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints | By Durf Humphries | Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints recently updated the Book Banning portal with new content. However, restricting or banning books, including comic books, is nothing new. Since comic books began to gain popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, many … Read more
| By Gale Staff | A new portal on the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints discusses the history of a government entity that for more than 150 years enacted some of the most harmful policies applied to Indigenous populations in the United States. In the twenty-first century, the BIA … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | For this week’s peek inside Gale In Context: Biography for Women’s History Month 2022, we’re celebrating women who amassed significant financial power over the centuries. This list of sharp minds who defied the odds may be scant, but Gale’s enormous database is a treasure trove of biographical essays on intriguing … Read more
| By Thorndike Press Staff | Every month, LibraryReads [https://libraryreads.org/] shares the top 10 books that librarians across the country love. The monthly Indie Next list [https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next-list] compiles recommendations from knowledgeable U.S. independent booksellers. Many New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers and bestselling authors are also releasing in large print this month. Thorndike Press is happy to share that the … Read more
| By Gale Staff | We are pleased to announce the release of 90 new topic pages in Gale Literature Criticism. These new pages focus on diverse authors and their works, and include every topic produced across the 10 Literature Criticism series since June 2020. Each topic page includes an overview essay, links to related … Read more
| By Gale Staff | From Kyiv to Kharkiv to the seaport town of Odessa, the people of Ukraine are living on a battlefield. Millions of people, their homes, their businesses, their way of life destroyed or abandoned after Putin’s invasion in February 2022. The war in Ukraine began Europe’s first major war in decades, … Read more
| By Gale Staff | I was reading a recent Pew Research study about issues challenging teens today. Anxiety, depression, vaping of nicotine and marijuana, bullying, and cyberbullying are among the issues. According to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emergency visits for suspected suicide attempts in teens significantly increased during … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | For Women’s History Month 2022, we’re excited to spotlight some intriguing profiles of trailblazing women over the ages in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Essays inside Gale In Context: Science offer illuminating details about the lives and achievements of these pioneers who broke through barriers to … Read more
| By K. Lee Lerner | The January 13, 2022 explosion of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, an undersea volcano located about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu, sent powerful blasts of ash, steam, and volcanic gases up to 25 miles (40 km) high into the atmosphere. The explosion formed a … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | Women’s History Month began to celebrate daring and determined activists. But it also reminds us that the struggle for full equality under the law is essentially a fight against the female body itself. In the war on equality, the opposition has proven itself to be a deft adapter of increasingly … Read more