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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 Requirement I Started to Love
by Liv McKinney, Duke '20, Biology Major
“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
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
Eyes on the Mockingbird
by Sarah Arnold, 38, English Teacher
The Role of the Individual versus an Intellectual Aristocracy
by Stephen Miller, 48, Philosophy Teacher
Growing Up with the Humanities
by Mirah Horowitz, Russell Reynolds Associates
A Lifelong Passion and Appreciation for History
by Ben Vinson III, Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University
Writing is My Activism
by Luis Rodriguez, poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2014
Making the World Bearable
by Malcolm Margolin, author, publisher, and founder of Heyday Books
Placing Our Family in the Story of America
by John Cho
What Happens When We Share Our Stories?
by Theresa Pierce, Rowan County Early College
Unlocking the Code
by Kathryn Bentley, Arts & Science Council
Spreading the Love of Libraries
by Deborah Jung, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District
Coming to Terms with the Experience of War
by William “Bro” Adams, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
My Service in the Navy Sparked a Lifelong Interest in Other Cultures
by Lou Nachman, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, NC
The First Book I Ever Checked Out of a Library
by Joan Hinde Stewart, President Emerita, Hamilton College
Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions in Latin
by Carol Quillen, President, Davidson College
The Golden Line
by Brooke Andrade, Director of the Library, National Humanities Center
The Power of Superheroes
by Jonathan Lethem, novelist