Due to high ticket demand, the Library has moved the 6:30 p.m., October 24 event, "How Facts Help Us Feel Less Afraid: Lessons from The Small and the Mighty," to Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th Street. 

The event features former Minnesota high school government and law teacher Sharon McMahon who, during the 2020 presidential election, created fact-checking social media posts that went viral. 

Many of her most popular ones were captioned reels set to music, featuring three or four frames of her expressive face.

Since then, she’s acquired the nickname “America’s Government Teacher” and her Instagram following has ballooned to 1.1 million.

Moreover, her debut book, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement, is a New York Times bestseller. 

McMahon’s book focuses on historical figures who didn’t make it into the textbooks – from a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter to a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp.

She shares some of these remarkable stories with the Library’s Steve Woolfolk, discusses her ongoing fight against misinformation in an era of surging fake news and banned books, and explains how non-partisan facts can help people feel less afraid. 

RSVP here.