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30 years ago, John Howard Griffin, a white Texan, became an itinerant Southern black for four weeks. His account of the experience, "Black like Me," galvanized the nation. Read >>
What seemed to be just another tempest in the teapot of academia has escalated into a matter of national values and politics. Who would have believed that the choice of which books Stanford University students must read would create so much tumult? And that the controversy goes back so far? Read >>
He was a society painter in the first decades of the twentieth century. And nobody painted society the way he did. Read >>
75 years ago, Americans paid their first income tax. And liked it. Read >>
The Legend Comes to Life Read >>

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