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Mary Brown

Mary Brown

Reads: Historical Nonfiction, biographies, mythology, and epic fantasy.

Listens to: Music of all sorts, audio books with great narration, and travel podcasts.

Watches: I love anything on the travel channel, the food network, and PBS. My absolute favorite shows are: Rick Steve's Europe and Cutthroat Kitchen.

My Guides

Abolitionists and Suffragists

African American Genealogy

African American History

AI Explained Series

Air and Simple Gifts

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

American Civil War

American Government

American Revolutionary War

American Sign Language & Deaf Culture

Americans with Disabilities Act

Amulets and Talismans

Ancient Babylonia

Ancient Mythology

Aphrodite/Venus

Arab American Heritage Month

Aretha Franklin

Armchair Traveler

Art Heists That Made History

Art History 101

Art History Research

Art Repatriation

Artistic Activism for Social Change

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Atonal Classical Composition

Battle of Compo Hill

Battle of Hastings

Beat the Winter Blues

Bessie Smith's Legacy

Billie Jean King

Birth of House Music

Bolshevik Revolution

Breast Cancer Awareness

Celebrate Native American Culture

Celebrate Pride

Chernobyl Disaster

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Civil Discourse

Civil Rights Movement

Connecticut Blizzards

Constitutional Amendment Process

Contemporary Classical Music

Cooking and Baking

Creative Writing

Declaration of Independence

Disability Pride Month

Do You Like Scary Movies?

Dungeons & Dragons - Dungeonmaster Training

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dylan Goes Electric

Eating Disorders

Eighteenth Amendment

Electronic Dance Music

Eleventh Amendment

End of Life Planning

Enslaved Stories

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Europe's Art During World War II

Executive Branch

Factory Years: Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground

Falling for Fall

Famous Artists School

Fifteenth Amendment

First Families of Westport

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

Fourteenth Amendment

Gatsby in Westport

Gender Dysphoria

Gender Identity

Gender-Based Violence

Generational Trauma

George Washington Carver

Gravestones of New England

Great Fairfield Swamp Fight

Greek and Roman Mythology

Harlem Renaissance

Harold Von Schmidt

Haunted New England

Healing Power of Art

Health & Wellness

Health Literacy

Hispanic Heritage Month

History of Dubstep

History of Music

History of the Equal Rights Amendment

History of the World

History of Westport Schools

HIV/AIDS Resources

How a Bill Becomes a Law

How to Find Books in the Library

Indian Child Welfare Act

Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indigenous American Heritage

Indigenous American Mythologies

Indigenous Medicine

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

International Women's Day

Intersectional Feminism

Intersectional Pride

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jeannette Rankin

Jewish American Heritage Month

John Cage and Postmodernism

Josephine Baker

Judicial Branch

Kings Highway Colonial Burial Ground

Knitting and Crocheting

Laws of Connecticut

Learning Guitar

Legislative Branch

LGBTQ+ Resources

Local Indigenous Peoples

Los Angeles Riots 1992

Lucille Lortel and The White Barn Theatre

Madam CJ Walker

Marine Ecosystems

Marsha P. Johnson

Martin Luther King Jr.

Mass Incarceration

Migrant and Refugee Support

Mindfulness & Meditation

Minoan Civilization

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Monsters in Literature

Museum of Natural History Gem Heist

Naomi Shihab Nye

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Native American Activism

Native American Arts & Crafts

Native American Heritage Month

Native American Music

Natural Science Series

Nineteenth Amendment

Non-Fiction 101

OJ Simpson Trial

Origins of Black History Month

Origins of Women's History Month

Pipelines on Tribal Land

Police Accountability

Primary Sources

Prohibition Era

Prohibition in Connecticut

Prostate Health

Psychology of the Accomplice

Publisher Resources

Racial Disparities in Health Care

Reading the Rainbow

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Revolutionary Biographies

Rock & Roll at Staples High

Rock and Roll History, 1950-1980

Rock and Roll History, 1980-Present

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

Roman Tetrarchy

Scramble for Africa

Seventeenth Amendment

Sexual Assault Support

Shirley Chisholm

Sixteenth Amendment

Slavery in Connecticut

Snapchat Resources

Sneaker Collecting

Social Media Activism

Southport Globe Onion

Spanish Civil War

Spring Mythologies

St. Patrick's Day

Stendhal Syndrome

Stéphane Breitwieser

Stop Racial Injustice

Suffrage in Westport

Tarot and Cartomancy

Technology Series

Teddy Roosevelt

The Ancient Maya

The Art Thief Read Alikes

The Electoral College

The Nutcracker Ballet

The Real Pocahontas

The Trail of Tears

The Vietnam War

Theft of Munch's "The Scream"

Thirteenth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment Loophole

Towards a More Perfect Union

Toxic Masculinity

Trailblazing Women

Tulsa Race Massacre

Tuskegee Airmen

Twelfth Amendment

Twentieth Amendment

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Twenty-Second Amendment

Twenty-Seventh Amendment

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Twenty-Third Amendment

Video Game History

Vinyl Record Collecting

Virtual Archaeology

Virtual Museum Tours

Visual Arts Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

Westport Local Artists

Westport Local History

Westport Public Art Collections

Westport's Artistic Legacy

Winter Festivals

Winter Mythologies

Witchcraft in Connecticut

Without Leaving Home

Women in Medicine

Women in Technology

Women's History Month

Women's Suffrage

World-Renowned Westporters

Wounded Knee Massacre

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