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Trish Thomas
Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders
March 12, 2016
I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a p... See more
Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande

médecin français Jean Itard (1774-1838),
Oliver Houde • L'école du cerveau: De Montessori, Freinet et Piaget aux sciences cognitives (PSY. Théories, débats, synthèses t. 15) (French Edition)

Wilson led our country reluctantly into World War I and after the war led the struggle nationally and internationally to establish the League of Nations. They associate Wilson with progressive causes like women’s suffrage. A handful of students recall the Wilson administration’s Palmer raids against left-wing unions. But my students seldom know or
... See moreJames W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Princeton University’s first graduate student, future president James Madison, brought one slave with him to campus and another to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The latter he had to free: all that talk of liberty had ruined him, a poison to the rest of the plantation. He took the former home with him.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.”