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The Fault in Our Stars and my Dad - Living through Leukemia in my Dad's shoes
by Cheyenne, 18 years old, living in Utah, a senior in high school
The long arc of history
by Milind Kulkarni, 30, Engineer
“This is Water”: Finding Empathy in the Banalities of Daily Living
by Avery, 18, Student
Chimborazo and the Sublime
by Emma Barlow, 18, Student
The Beauty of Love and Human Connection
by Corynn Fitzpatrick, 18, student
From the Pequod to the Oil Fields
by James Hackett, CEO, Alta Mesa Resources
Things Don't Have To Be The Way They've Always Been
by Gabriela Lopez, 21, Texas A&M University Undergraduate Student
Harry Potter and My Mom
by Amanda Trevino, 21, currently a college student who will be attending medical school next fall!
“Fern Hill”: the fleeting, eternal magnificence of Innocence
by Carl Rosin, 51, teacher
A Poem Remembered, a World Created
by Nathan Nielson, 44 years old, writer and director of Books & Bridges, a humanities nonprofit organization
Mystic Musicality
by Bill Carbone, Vice President of Education, Rock and Roll Forever Foundation
On This Side of Paradise
by Mike Rizer, Executive Vice President and Director, Community Relations, Wells Fargo Bank
Southern History, Turned Upside Down
by J. Porter Durham, Jr., General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, Global Endowment Management, LP
Sometimes You Just Need to Keep Reading
by Mab Segrest, Professor Emerita, Connecticut College
Finding Freedom from the Familiar
by Hollis Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Where Dreams Were Made and Humanistic Visions Forged
by Stephen G. Hall, Alcorn State University
Discovering How Literature and Art Place Demands on Us
by Dr. Gil Greggs, Director of Academic Programs, St. David’s School, Raleigh NC
On the Anxiety of Influence
by William Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Lifetime of Humanities Moments
by Peter A. Benoliel, Chairman Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation
A Requirement I Started to Love
by Liv McKinney, Duke '20, Biology Major
For the First Time It Felt Like Someone Was Writing About Me
by Justin Parmenter, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, NC
“You don’t just run, you run to some place wonderful.”
by Deborah Ross, lawyer & politician
The Second Shelf and Beyond
by Kathryn Hill, President, The Levine Museum of the New South
How to Get U.S. Citizenship and the American Dream
by Teresa Kim, History teacher in Vista, California
Literature and Its Worlds of Possibility
by Emily Coccia, the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
History, (Re)imagined
by Alexander Knirim, Bayreuth University & The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
The Jungle: Personalizing the Historical Struggle of Workers
by Kristen Shedd, Fullerton College & The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
Baseball, Jackie Robinson, and Racial Identity Formation
by Jamie Lathan, 39, teacher and school administrator, husband, father, son, brother, friend.
Getting Carried Away by a Book
by Kevin Spencer, 37, PhD student in English at Duke University