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The story of how little Academy Chicago Publishers (co-owned by the author and her husband, Jordan Miller) tried to publish the late John Cheever's uncollected short stories, and …
Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend divinity school up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or …
It was bad enough when popular offensive line coach Joe Moore sued the University of Notre Dame for age discrimination -- but matters got much worse when the lawsuit uncovered …
Carolyn Heilbrun, in Writing a Woman’s Life, states that books about the real lives of women aren’t written often enough. Women of Privilege is an attempt to fill that gap. The …
After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian's beautiful, former …
In July, 2005, Representative John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, commissioned this report after President Bush failed to answer a letter from 122 …
According to available evidence, the first Jewish pioneers arrived in Chicago in 1841. And only five years later, Chicago's first synagogue was established. Walter Roth, the …
This is a thoroughly unique and honest account of the author's early life growing up in a commune in rural SW Virginia in the 1960s and 1970s. It offers a rivetting look at a time …
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University convened a high-level task force of voting experts from government, academia and the private sector to systematically analyze …
He was told that the color of his skin would keep him out of the big leagues, but Joe Black worked his way up through the Negro Leagues and the Cuban Winter League. He burst into …