The past is a fascinating place to visit, especially when you consider how little it would take to make it an entirely different place.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Penelope Fitzgerald is considered one of the great British novelists of the last half-century. Remarkably, she didn't begin writing until she was nearly 60 - and that's partly what attracted biographer Hermione Lee.
Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Sherlock Holmes' partner and later his wife.
Dr. Maden Kataria founded Laughter Clubs International – groups of people who meet to laugh aloud together.
Margaret D. Jacobs studies early 20th century policies in both the U.S. and Australia, that removed indigenous children from their homes.
Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"
John Taliaferro is the author of “Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore.”
Journalist Mark Pendergrast tells Steve Paulson that coffee came from Ethiopia, functioned as a patriotic symbol during the early days of the American Republic, and prolonged the slave trade in places like Brazil.
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