Here's an important supplement to your child's classroom history lessons: The William F. Laman Public Library presents an exhibit that delves into Nazi-controlled Germany and its practice of burning books, opening Friday (Aug. 31).

Organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., the traveling exhibit examines how German university students threw out the writings of authors such as Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.

The exhibition will focus on how these acts were covered in American media and how the book burnings came to exemplify the difference between a democratic United States and genocidal ideals of Adolf Hitler.

The exhibit will remain on view through Oct. 28. For more info click here.