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1619: Past and Present
The first captive Africans arrived in the Jamestown settlement in Virginia in 1619. A shipload of women intended as mates for the male settlers als…
8 years, 3 months ago
Art's Complicated
Sam Blanchard is a digital artist who uses humor and technology in his work. One of his favorites is a nod to his phobias--including going bald and …
8 years, 4 months ago
Get Rhythm
Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz, but his recording career lasted just six years. A book by Brendan Wolfe, Finding Bix: The…
8 years, 4 months ago
The Pains of Recovery
"Councilors Without Borders" traveled to Puerto Rico to help people who continue to suffer after the Hurricane Maria disaster. Residents are still f…
8 years, 4 months ago
Cents and Sensibility
Jane Austen novels provide timeless insight into our virtues and vices. It turns out she drew inspiration on how to live a moral life from the great …
8 years, 4 months ago
Muggles Abroad!
A few lucky college students who love the Harry Potter fantasy series get to travel to London for 3 weeks of magical creatures, potions, and herbolog…
8 years, 5 months ago
Through an Indian's Looking Glass
A story of Native American resilience comes to life in a new biography of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man and Catholic preacher. Black Elk …
8 years, 5 months ago
Real Love with Sharon Salzberg
In her new book, Real Love, Sharon Salzberg--one of the world's leading authorities on love and meditation--shows us love isn't just an emotion we fe…
8 years, 5 months ago
Future Farming of America
Southwest Virginia has seen a decline in coal and tobacco—two industries that once boomed in the region. Could hemp be a way to boost the local econo…
8 years, 5 months ago
Moonshine and Prohibition
South Carolina saw the statewide prohibition of alcohol in 1915. But not before the state established its own dispensary system more than a decade ea…
8 years, 5 months ago