The Martha's Vineyard Times12h
Wampanoag history book at the center of Texas controversy
Linda Coombs, has been at the center of an effort in Texas to discredit her work about America from an indigenous perspective ...
The Washington Informer1d
JEALOUS: Attacks on People’s Stories Are Attacks on People. Just Ask a Librarian.
Houston suburb reclassifies Native American book as fiction, invalidating Indigenous history. Librarians and activists fight ...
Newser on MSN1d
Court Suspends Panel That Decided History Book Is Fiction
The Texas review board that mandated public libraries move a book about the mistreatment of Native Americans to the "fiction" ...
Wampanoag author’s children’s book at center of Texas library book controversy
Montgomery County north of Houston ordered “Colonization and the Wampanoag Story,” by local author Linda Coombs, back to the ...
Montgomery County library will reclassify book about Native Americans amid pressure
The decision to reclassify the nonfiction book "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" as fiction drew nationwide criticism.
A Texas county called a history book about Native Americans in Massachusetts fiction. It reversed itself after an outcry.
A Texas county backtracked after widespread criticism when it said a children's book on Native American history in ...
This Texas county just reclassified a history book as fiction. Let that sink in.
The Montgomery County Texas Commissioners Court ordered libraries to reclassify the nonfiction book “Colonization and the ...
Houston Public Media2d
Montgomery County committee incorrectly categorized historical book as fiction, publisher says
Coombs is a historian and author from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah. She wrote children's books for a museum series that ...
Texas county libraries label Native American history book as fiction, draws criticism
A citizen review committee in Montgomery County labeled 'Colonization and the Wampanoag Story' as fiction. Commissioners ...
When real history gets recast as 'fiction,' it's another form of book-banning
A committee without credentials in Montgomery County, Texas, decided a historical work about Indigenous people, "Colonization ...
Texarkana Gazette3d
EDITORIAL | Closed-Door Critics: Texas county needs to rethink how library books are scrutinized
The book "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" by by Linda Coombs, a historian member of the Wampanoag Nation, is a children ...
Library & Information Science News3d
Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section
Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as ...