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Articles with keyword "Education"

Etching of Rousseau

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Friends of Rousseau

By Leo Damrosch

Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.

Photo of Keira Amstutz, CEO of Indiana Humanities

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Indiana's Keira Amstutz

By Julianna Thibodeaux

Humanities programs connect across state.

Tobacco wagon

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Excerpts from the Writings of Wendell Berry

On work and the work of local culture

Peter Cooper, 1850

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Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas

By James Williford

Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.

Exhibition Hall at Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia

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Wagner Free Institute of Science

By Steve Moyer

The Exhibition Hall at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, with its original systematic scheme of cherry-wood cabinets dating from the 1880s, provides a rare view of a Victorian scie

Happy Campers, Class of ’09 at the University of Portland

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Happy Camp

By Amy Lifson

Happy Campers convene in Oregon.

Parents picket the schools in Kanawha County, 1974.

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A Battle over Books

By David Skinner

West Virginians battled over their school books in 1974.

Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of West Virginia Humanities Council

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West Virginia's Ken Sullivan

By James E. Casto

Ken Sullivan stresses the role of the Civil War in the formation of his state.

A participant of the Prime Time Family Reading Time program engages with a book.

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Ten Years of Prime Time

By David Skinner

Louisiana marks ten successful years of a literacy program.