Leap Days the naturals

Leap Days the naturalsKatherine Lanpher, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times and More magazine, officially moved to Manhattan on a leap day, transferring from a rooted life in the Midwest to a new job, a new city, and a new sense of who she was. But re invention is a tricky business and starting over in the middle of life isn't for the feint of heart. Katherine Lanpher's short essay on her first six months in New York "A Manhattan Admonition" was published

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Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father

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--Jane Adams

Douglass spent the first twenty years of his life as a slave

And why aren't't parents and universities helping students make better-informed decisions about sex and relationships

Mowat chronicles his harrowing experiences

Nathaniel Greene's militia and cavalry withstood a punishing frontal assault by Cornwallis at Guilford Courthouse deep in North Carolina territory

and teaches study skills and responsibility

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and was completely engaged from start to finish