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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
Hamilton and the Performance of Poetry
by Thomas Scherer, Consultant, Spencer Capital Holdings
A Lifetime of Humanities Moments
by Peter A. Benoliel, Chairman Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation
Learning How to Read a Poem
by Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California
For the First Time It Felt Like Someone Was Writing About Me
by Justin Parmenter, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, NC
Not Too Far Off
by Brian Finke, 21, Student at Texas A&M
Literature and Its Worlds of Possibility
by Emily Coccia, 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
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
The Perfect Invitation
by Patricia Matthew, 49, English professor living in Brooklyn, New York
Growing Up with the Humanities
by Mirah Horowitz, Russell Reynolds Associates
Writing is My Activism
by Luis Rodriguez, poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2014
Fathers and Sons
by Scott Gartlan, Executive Director, Charlotte Teachers Institute
How I Came to Oppose the Death Penalty
by Steve Earle, singer-songwriter
“I saw, in Stephen Dedalus, myself.”
by William Ferris, former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
The Golden Line
by Brooke Andrade, Director of the Library, National Humanities Center
Answering the Question “Who Are We?”
by Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
Haunted by Homer’s Sirens
by Kevin Guthrie, founder/president, ITHAKA
Love of Literature and the Will To Live
by Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
P.O.W. Poetry in Code
by W. Robert Connor, trustee emeritus, President and Director, of the National Humanities Center (1989-2002)
Censoring Slaughterhouse-Five
by Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center