Mary McLeod Bethune A civil rights activist and educator whose parents had been slaves. As co-founder of the United Negro College Fund, she... Read More
“Bound to be True”:Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge The U.S. needed a pleasant distraction in 1865. It received one in the unlikely form of a children’s novel. Read More
Rachel Carson: Not So Silent "Silent Spring" has become a kind of biblical text for the environmental movement. Read More
