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This week in women’s history: Poet-novelist-activist Marge Piercy turns 80
March 28, 2016Piercy has written 17 novels, including bestsellers, and 19 volumes of poetry.
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African American history event recalls even King had doubts at times
March 25, 2016"Struggle, it never stops. It moves on. We make progress but we have to keep on fighting."
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“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
March 25, 2016We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
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A terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
March 25, 2016It is a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized strong points in downtown Dublin, to be joined by maybe a thousand more.
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Henry David Thoreau: Bright glows the pond
March 24, 2016Like all giants of the past, Henry David Thoreau writes in a different period of time but speaks to us today.
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