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Between 1902 to 1932 in Decatur, the school week ran from Tuesday through Saturday. “Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies… Individuals can struggle mightily against [...]

The Vietnam War incited a variety of responses in the U.S and around the world. Counterculture movements were emerging in the West, and the youth, in particular, were hungry for change. [...]

“When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.” – Paul Smith The stories that we tell, as a society, are a kind of collective imagining, a method to interpret and understand the [...]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— So begins one of Edgar Allan Poe’s best known poems, “The [...]

Unless you’ve actually chosen to attend an all-girls or all-boys high school, co-ed schools are the default in this day and age.  In fact, co-education is so taken for granted that hearing [...]

Emily Harrison once wrote to her parents, “These heartstrings of ours have a curious way of getting tangled up in things: particularly trees and rocks and hill slopes…but gradually I [...]