January 18, 2024 Just Imagine…A Thousand Words Sebastião Salgado was born in 1944 in Brazil. He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris and started his professional career as an economist for the International...
January 11, 2024 Just Imagine…Our National Parks, a Gift for All of Us? Our national park system has been described as a gift that we as Americans give to ourselves. The early history of our national parks, however, is one of gifts denied...
January 4, 2024 Just Imagine…Gleaning: an Old Word that Remains Relevant Each year, we tend to recognize new words that come into our vocabulary. Often these words reflect trends in pop culture and tend to be hip. (The Oxford Dictionary declared...
December 21, 2023 Just Imagine…A Chinese-American Mother of 1500 Margaret Chung was born in California in 1889 to Chinese immigrant parents. Margaret grew up in a devout Christian family and had hopes of going to China as a medical...
December 14, 2023 Just Imagine…Death over Slavery Margaret (Peggy) Garner was born into slavery in Kentucky. Her enslaver was most likely her biological father. She married in 1849 to a person enslaved by the same owner. She...
December 7, 2023 Just Imagine…Leaving Behind Original Intent? The founding fathers were concerned to make sure that the government they were creating should not have the power to take people’s property for public use without the owner’s permission....
November 30, 2023 Just Imagine…Dishonoring Veterans Buck Adams (a pseudonym) was an African American soldier during World War II. As a trained mechanic, he worked closely with the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force). He began a...
November 21, 2023 Who Are We the People? Session Three Discussion Summary In the third and final session of our small-group conversation series Who are We The People — and who is being pushed out?, participants from around the country gathered online...
November 16, 2023 Just Imagine…Unrecognized Artistry Camille Claudel was born in France in 1864. Her early education was a traditional Catholic education. As she grew older, she became interested in an artistic future and began to...
