Instructional Video9:06
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Elissa Malespina - Freedom to Read

Higher Ed
Elissa has been a high school history teacher, a special education teacher for students with severe emotional, mental and physical challenges, a teacher Librarian at Highland Park High School, Columbia High School and South Orange...
Instructional Video3:07
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Jerry Mitchell - Mississippi Banned Books Festival

Higher Ed
In more than three decades as a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, Jerry Mitchell’s stories helped put four Ku Klux Klan members and a suspected serial killer behind bars decades after they committed their crimes....
Instructional Video5:59
Brainwaves Video Anthology

J. Cynthia McDermott - On Banned Books

Higher Ed
J. Cynthia McDermott is a retired professor of education at Antioch University Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy, Fulbright scholar at the University of Wroclaw Poland and...
Instructional Video6:53
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Martha Hickson - The Right to Read

Higher Ed
Martha Hickson has been a high school librarian since 2005. Her work has been featured in School Library Journal, Booklist, KnowledgeQuest, the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Blog, NJEA Review, and School Librarian’s...
Instructional Video2:15
C-SPAN

On This Day: Publication Of Uncle Tom's Cabin

9th - Higher Ed
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written to expose the evils of slavery. Published in 1852 by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to demonstrate the terrors and reality of slavery African Americans were experiencing. The interesting resource...
Instructional Video0:53
PBS

Joseph Heller's Hilarious Catch-22

9th - 12th Standards
Comedian Seth Meyers shares his rationale for why Catch 22 should get viewers to vote for inclusion of Joseph Heller's satire in the Great American Read program.