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Category: History
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Stanley Meisler, author of When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years, talks about how Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia contributed to the overthrow of an emperor.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire prompted labor reforms that benefited many workers, but not those who worked in bakeries. The author of White Bread looks at the reasons why.
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A multimedia post from Stanley Meisler about the celebrations surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps
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Stanley Meisler, author of When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years, discusses the Peace Corps, its history, and its diminished presence today.
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Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.
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King’s words can show us that killing public employees unions today would be immoral as well as foolish
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For Black History Month, read an excerpt from a book that tells the story of African American history through their own letters.
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Sargent Shriver died this week at the age of 95. Stanley Meisler shares the inside story of how this remarkable man founded the Peace Corps.
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What the color line was to the 20th century, the faith line might be to the 21st.
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Excerpts and multimedia for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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