“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow

I learn by going where I have to go.”

— Theodore Roethke

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Polio wasted millions. Then one man and his team made the miracle. A vaccine!

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Labor history is an American tapestry of struggle and strikes. But some stories are told in song. . .

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Decades before democracy began to stagger, an unlikely defender began rallying the people.

NATIVE-AMERICAN

SEQUOYAH AND THE "TALKING LEAVES"

WHEN ALCATRAZ WENT NATIVE

THE OTHER 'COLUMBUS DAY'