Brenda Wineapple

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  • December 23, 2020
    Last spring, after the world saw the video of the murder of George Floyd, few Americans could turn an oblivious eye to the racism and violence that are part of the brutal, inhuman...
  • November 24, 2020
    As 2020 careens to a close, few will be sorry to bid it farewell. Devastating wildfires, hurricanes, floods and a global pandemic, not to mention America’s divisive...
  • October 21, 2020
    On December 17, 1877, Mark Twain delivered an after-dinner speech at a banquet of graybeards gathered in a Boston hotel to celebrate John Greenleaf Whittier’s seventieth...