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Celebrating Freedom, Sharing Black Stories, and Understanding the Importance of Juneteenth

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  • Publication date June 18, 2024
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Juneteenth is a holiday that not many Americans know much about, yet it celebrates a major step towards equality taken by African Americans across the United States. Juneteenth only became a Federally recognized holiday in 2021, yet it has a much deeper and richer history than that. Sometimes referred to as Freedom Day or Emancipation…Continue Reading Celebrating Freedom, Sharing Black Stories, and Understanding the Importance of Juneteenth

Flags to Pages

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  • Publication date June 14, 2024
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I’ve always loved vexillology (the study of flags) and have a large collection of all 50 state flags and the flags of all the countries I have visited. Many people don’t know that every June 14 the United States honors the day the Continental Congress adopted the 13 Stripes and Stars of the original 13…Continue Reading Flags to Pages

Narratives of Nature

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  • Publication date June 7, 2024
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Summer is coming in HOT this year as we enter into June, which also welcomes important international holidays to bring awareness to our one and only Earth. Specifically, there are two holidays proposed and celebrated by the United Nations to raise awareness for environmental issues. The U.N. first celebrated World Environment Day in Stockholm, Sweden,…Continue Reading Narratives of Nature

Read With Pride!

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  • Publication date May 31, 2024
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Here at Susquehanna University, we don’t typically get the opportunity to celebrate Pride Month in June (seeing as we tend to finish Spring Semester in mid-May) as such, we usually partake in the festivities in April, and this year the Student Library Advisory Committee pulled together a list of 45 of our most popular LGBTQIA+…Continue Reading Read With Pride!

Books You May Read This May

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  • Publication date May 22, 2024
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May is a month of representation for many groups across the nation. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Jewish American Heritage Month, and we’ve got shelves full of books for people of all communities to enjoy. Mental Health Awareness: Way back in 1908, Mental Health Awareness Month…Continue Reading Books You May Read This May

Patrick Thomas Henry on the Stories that Inspired Him

  • Author By neumyer
  • Publication date May 2, 2024
  • Categories: News

For those who do not know, Patrick Thomas Henry (whom I will refer to as PTH) is an alum of Susquehanna University with degrees in both Creative Writing and Political Science. After his graduation in 2008, he went on to get an MA in English Literature from Bucknell University, an MFA in Creative Writing from…Continue Reading Patrick Thomas Henry on the Stories that Inspired Him

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Book Recs

Since April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I chose to visit the VIP Center (found in the lower level of the Blough-Weis Library) to speak with Wynn Phillips, the Director of Violence Prevention, about books that pertain to sexual assault awareness, so that I could share a list of books/resources for those interested. To be…Continue Reading Sexual Assault Awareness Month Book Recs

National Library Week: Blough-Weis Staff Talk Classics

In celebration of National Library Week, I sent out a survey to the full-time staff members of our very own Blough-Weis Library to learn about their individual reading experiences with classic literature. I assume most (if not all) of us have had some experience reading classic literature, either from English courses of the past or…Continue Reading National Library Week: Blough-Weis Staff Talk Classics