Bucktown Village Store

Source: Atlas Obscura

Read about where Harriet Tubman got her start as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn

Source: Lapham's Quarterly

Walt Whitman spent a great deal of his life in Brooklyn. Choose a part of Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn to explore, complete with commentary, photographs, and Whitman’s own words.

American Descendents

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

View one photographer’s powerful photo series where he recreates portraits of famous Americans with their descendants.

John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

Source: AP News

Recently deceased, Congressman John Lewis was a true American hero. We remember his sacrifices and accomplishments as a civil rights activist.

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela review – one man’s otherworldly patience

Source: The Guardian

To commerate Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid in South Africa, a collection of letters written during his imprisonment was recently published. Critic Tim Adams shares what he discovered about the already well-known leader.

A Photographer Follows in Gandhi’s Footsteps

Source: National Geographic

See photos retracing the route of Gandhi’s famous Salt March and learn about the photographer’s experience in this interview.

Adults are remembering Elie Wiesel. But his testimony mattered most for youths.

Source: The Washington Post

Elie Wiesel, author of Night and human rights advocate, died in July of 2016. The author of this opinion post suggests that Wiesel’s work has a particularly strong impact on young people.

Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus

Source: NPR

Meet Claudette Colvin, the teenager who inspired Rosa Parks.

America’s First Me Generation

Source: Salon

In this book review, Laura Miller draws connections between the Transcendentalists of the 19th century and individualist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Abigail Adams, Founding Mother

Source: The New York Times

In this review of Woody Holton’s book Abigail Adams, we learn more about the First Lady who often reminded her husband to “remember the ladies.” Although the changes of her time had yet to extend to women, Abigail Adams was standing up for her own and other women’s rights.