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The Little Woman Who Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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I have been in group settings in which people will say, “I don’t really care about [insert societal problem] because …

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Huck Finn’s Truthful Eyes

June 8, 2012

I once gave a presentation in an undergraduate grammar and usage course about the correct usage of “between you and …

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The African American Experience: Roots and W. E. B. Du Bois

May 18, 2012

Alex Haley, famous for writing Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976), searched for identity by tracing his family …

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I recently watched the adorable movie Julie and Julia with the incomparable Meryl Streep and the impossibly cute Amy Adams.  …

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