From gourmet meals to poignant book discussions to Wild West shootouts, Festival fans were treated to a wide variety of events during the 17th annual Festival of Books.

As could be expected from an author who writes books based on his experiences, Kent Nerburn has taken careful notes during his 2019 One Book South Dakota Tour, which began in Watertown June 4.

Though he won’t be sitting next to Fatback in the back seat of Grover’s beat-up old Buick as he tours South Dakota this summer, Kent Nerburn’s 2019 One Book Tour does bear similarities to the journey that led him to write “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder.”

The South Dakota State Historical Society Press has printed and delivered the 2019 Young Readers One Book, “Tatanka and Other Legends of the Lakota People,” to the SDHC office for statewide distribution.

“Since the nineteenth century, the humanities have generally been defined as the disciplines that investigate the expressions of the human mind.”

Ready to start your first book club discussion of the New Year with a novel you can talk about with everyone else in South Dakota?

The South Dakota Humanities Council has revealed its 2019 common read selections for adults and young readers throughout the state.

2018 One Book South Dakota author Thomas Patterson will return to South Dakota this month to discuss his book "Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism."

It is hard to imagine losing the editorial checks and balances that protect our First Amendment rights, our freedom of information. 

What can be done to once again place American journalism on solid ground? Thomas Patterson's "Informing the News" explores potential solutions.