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Events for July 31, 2024 - April 12, 2024

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  • April 2022

  • Wed 20

    Benjamin Franklin and Citizen Science

    Featured April 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm UTC-4

    PBS Books, SciStarter and PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs celebrates Citizen Science Month and Earth Day present a free virtual program on April 20th at 7pm ET in celebration with Citizen Science Month, STEM storytelling, and Ken Burns’s BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

  • Thu 28

    Pandemic Stories of Children All Over the World

    Featured April 28, 2022 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC-4

    PBS Books, in partnership with GPB, is thrilled to present an unforgettable, emotional evening of reading, as the biggest children's book authors read real pandemic stories submitted by real kids!

  • May 2022

  • Tue 3

    Author Talk | Trailblazing Women Writers | Reshma Saujani’s ‘Pay Up. The Future of Women and Work’

    Featured May 3, 2022 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC-4

    PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with Reshma Saujani, discussing her latest book "Pay Up. The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)."

  • Thu 12

    ‘Water’s True Cost’ with Author Peter Annin

    Featured May 12, 2022 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC-4

    To address Water's True Cost, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with journalist and professor Peter Annin, discussing his book "The Great Lakes Water Wars," led by Program Director of the Great Lakes Now Sandra Svoboda.

  • Wed 18

    Author Talk: “Jo Jo Makoons” with Dawn Quigley

    Featured May 18, 2022 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm UTC-4

    PBS Books, in partnership with the American Indian Library Association, is pleased to interview trailblazer Dawn Quigley, author of the Jo Jo Makoons series, including the recently released Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants (#2).

  • Wed 25

    ‘I Am An American’ with Authors Grace Lin and Martha Brockenbrough | Trailblazing Women Writers

    Featured May 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm UTC-4

    PBS Books is pleased to interview trailblazers Grace Lin and Martha Brockenbrough, authors of "I Am An American: The Wong Kim Ark Story".

  • June 2022

  • Wed 8

    Author Talk: Paula Yoo

    Featured June 8, 2022 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC-4

    In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin, PBS Books is pleased to interview award-winning author Paula Yoo, who recently published “From A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement”.

  • Wed 15

    FILMMAKER TALK: Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, filmmakers of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”

    Featured June 15, 2022 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC-4

    In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Vincent Chin, PBS Books, in collaboration with DPTV, is pleased to host an important conversation about “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” with Filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, along with executive producer Professor Juanita Anderson and attorney/activist Jim Shimoura. 

  • Sun 19

    ‘Juneteenth: We The People’ with The BLK Freedom Collective

    Featured June 19, 2022 at 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm UTC-4

    On Sunday, June 19 at 1 p.m. ET | 10 a.m. PT, PBS Books is pleased to present a special commemoration virtual event, “Juneteenth: We the People," produced by the BLK Freedom Collective.

  • Thu 30

    Author Talk | Mark Clague, ‘O Say Can You Hear’

    Featured June 30, 2022 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC-4

    Thursday, June 30 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with author and esteemed scholar Mark Clague, author of O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of The Star-Spangled Banner,  in celebration of the Fourth of July and in anticipation of our nation’s 250th celebration.

  • July 2022

  • Tue 19

    Author Talk | ‘All The Way to the Top’ with Annette Pimentel and Jennifer Chaffins-Keelan

    Featured July 19, 2022 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm UTC-4

    Join PBS Books as author Annette Pimentel and activist Jennifer Chaffins-Keelan discuss All the Way to the Top and Jennifer’s experiences as a child activist.

  • Tue 26

    Author Talk | ‘Rolling Warrior’ with Judy Heumann

    Featured July 26, 2022 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm UTC-4

    Join trailblazer and disability activist Judy Heumann, who is considered the mother of the disability rights movement, in a conversation about her books Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior.

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