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May 15, 2025When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Sam Clemens (not yet “Mark Twain”) didn’t know where to stand. He was twenty-five years old, a steamboat pilot...
May 2, 2025When my guide and I enter the classroom and loiter inside the door, the teacher continues with a lesson on the grammar of interrogatives without a pause. A dozen kids turn their...
January 9, 2025In 2003, when results came in for the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (sppa), Dana Gioia took action. The survey was designed by the National Endowment for the...
