Month-Long Observances:
- National Native American Heritage Month
- Transgender Awareness Month
- National Family Caregivers Month
- National Adoption Month
- National Diabetes Month
Religious or Cultural Observances:
- Samhain, Celtic, Wicca/Paganism (10/31-11/1)
- All Saints’ Day, Christianity (11/1)
- Día de los Muertos, Mexican, Central American, and Mesoamerican Indigenous traditions (11/1-11/2)
- Diwali, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism (11/8)
- Bandi Chhor Divas, Sikhism (11/8)
- Birth of the Báb, Bahá’í Faith (11/10)
- Birth of Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í Faith (11/11)
- Guru Nanak Jayanti, Sikhism (11/24)
- Day of the Covenant, Bahá’í Faith (11/26)
- Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í Faith (11/28)
- Advent begins, Western Christianity (11/29)
Dates of Significance:
- Election Day, United States (11/3)
- First-Generation College Celebration Day (11/8)
- Veterans Day (11/11)
- Remembrance Day/Armistice Day (11/11)
- World Kindness Day (11/13)
- Transgender Awareness Week (11/13-11/19)
- International Day for Tolerance (11/16)
- International Men’s Day (11/19)
- Transgender Day of Remembrance (11/20)
- World Children’s Day (11/20)
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (11/25)
- 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (11/25-12/10)
- Thanksgiving, United States (11/26)
- National Day of Mourning (11/26)
- Native American Heritage Day (11/27)
Library Resources:
Month-Long Observances:
National Native American Heritage Month
- Native American Heritage Month:
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
- Notable Native People by Adrienne Keene
- The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman & Beth Dooley
- Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale
- There There by Tommy Orange
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- The Native American Experience by Dee Brown
- The Native Americans by Elizabeth Glenn and Stewart Rafert
Transgender Awareness Month
- The Real Lives of Transgender and Nonbinary Humans by Publish your Purpose, edited by Brani Lai
- Transgender History by Susan Stryker
National Adoption Month
- Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives by E. Wayne Carp
National Diabetes Month
- Handbook of Diabetes by Rudy Bilous, Richard Donnelly, and Iskandar Idris
Religious or Cultural Observances:
Día de los Muertos, Mexican, Central American, and Mesoamerican Indigenous traditions (11/1-11/2)
- Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) by Harold Goldmeier
Diwali, Hinduism (11/8)
- Diwali by Angela Harmon
Dates of Significance:
Election Day, United States (11/3)
- Election Day as a National Holiday: Overview by Bethany Grodd Dorau
First-Generation College Celebration Day (11/8)
- First-Generation College Students: Understanding and Improving the Experience from Recruitment to Commencement by Lee Ward, Michael J. Siegel, and Zebulun Davenport
Veterans Day (11/11)
- Veterans Day by Salem Press Encyclopedia
Remembrance Day/Armistice Day (11/11)
- The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919-1946 by Adrian Gregory
