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The First Age of Reform
“In the history of the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson declared in 1841, “the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.”[1] Not much a joiner of causes...
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Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
In 1984 Jimmy Carter reflected on growing up in the...
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Education Reform in Antebellum America
Education reform is often at the heart of all great reform struggles.[1]
By the 1820s Americans were...
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The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s America
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the strange American author who has never been out of fashion; since his death in 1864, his stories and novels have resisted the tides of taste, canon...
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Sandra Day O’Connor: A Life of Action
Sandra Day O’Connor still has a lot of work to do. The first woman on the United States Supreme Court who recently described herself as “a retired cowgirl” continues to...
