Chapter 16
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One Small Step

Margaret Lazarus Dean reflects on the legacy of Neil Armstrong

carried his fame: Some people think Neil Armstrong’s choice to stop giving interviews and making appearances showed him to be standoffish, rude, or even ungrateful. To me, it shows just…

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

…was three years old, the Hodgsons experienced severe financial difficulties. As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford…

The Social Strains of Freedom

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. plunges into the South of 1865

…there is plenty of dedicated, selfless heroism, too, and idealistic and impractical stubbornness. It is a richly emotional and ironical tapestry of what people are like, or can be under…

Are You My Father?

In her new novel, Sybil Baker explores the bonds of family and the nature of belonging

unraveled before everyone involved can make the changes necessary to move forward. “You’re giving up stability for the unknown,” Wayne Morehouse tells his thirty-five-year-old daughter, Allison, after she divorces her…

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