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Russell Freedman (1929-2018)
Photo by Evans ChanWe were sad to learn that Russell Freedman passed away earlier this week. The prolific nonfiction author -- winner of the 1988 Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography -- wrote over sixty books, beginning with Teenagers Who Made History and including Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the...
Review of We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitlerby Russell FreedmanIntermediate, Middle School Clarion 104 pp.5/16 978-0-544-22379-0 $17.99Freedman’s latest photohistory is an excellent overview of the White Rose resistance movement, a group of university students who, beginning in June 1942 in Munich, Germany, risked...
Changing Times
I’ve been writing nonfiction books for young readers, mainly history and biography, for more than fifty years — since the days of typewriters and invented dialogue. Along the way I’ve seen some major changes in the way the historical record is researched, interpreted, and presented. One huge change is the...
"My Favorite Newbery" matching game featuring Russell Freedman
Photo by Evans ChanRussell Freedman received the 1988 Newbery Medal for his meticulously researched Lincoln: A Photobiography. Which of these books is the historian's favorite Newbery winner?a) Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (1973)b) The Story of Mankind by Hendrick Willem van Loon (1922)c) A Year Down Yonder...
An Interview with Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman has illuminated the crossroads of the biographical and the historical in more than forty nonfiction books for young people. He spoke with Roger Sutton last June in New York City. Photo by Evans ChanROGER SUTTON: For this special issue we asked a number of writers to give us...
Russell Freedman Wilder profile
By James Cross GiblinRussell Freedman might well have had a successful career in broadcast journalism, following in the footsteps of reporters like Edward R. Murrow. His deep, rather solemn voice, lightened by frequent touches of humor, makes him a compelling speaker. One attendee at a recent Clarion sales conference, hearing...
Why I Voted for Lincoln and Roosevelt
Recently, I was discussing presidential politics with a naturalized citizen who came to this country from Malaysia as a scholarship student in 1969. When she left home, her parents took her to the airport in Kuala Lumpur, where she would set out on her long journey to a different culture...