Kennedy's Purple Prose

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What Julian Bond Had to Say about Non Voters and Wings on Frogs

Colleagues throughout the years have argued with me about non voters. I’ve heard it from teachers who answer the call to civic duty every day, grad students frustrated with apathetic communities and activists who spend their days knocking on doors asking for one simple act when the day comes.

Echoes: Creativity and Aristotle's Potluck

As classic works become more familiar you find those ideas are anything but dead and gone. In fact, they have us surrounded. The ubiquity of ideas you’ve come to associate with Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Federalists or Antifederalists suggests those writers captured something fundamental about how we understand the world

MLK's Supporting Vocals

We’ve all heard the sound clip of MLK’s speech from 50 years ago when thousands joined him and other leaders for the March on Washington. The refrain, “I have a dream” might be even be more recognizable to today’s students than pictures of the man himself. Whatever

National Academy 2013: Seeing Big in L.A.

The challenge for this year’s National Academy [http://new.civiced.org/images/stories/NationalAcademy2013_FINAL.pdf] was to “think spatially and graphically.” And it certainly got visual. [/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/Sharpies-Academy.jpg]Standard issue Sharpie allotment for the National Academy (Photo by John Markwell) The model of