There are perks to being an 8-ft.-tall canary. Everyone recognizes you and wants to be your friend. On the other hand, our world is not built for 8-ft.-tall canaries. Inside a television studio, for example,...

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What two candidates did in parallel situations in 1968 is an instructive lesson for today, argues presidential scholar Ken Hughes

Throughout the promotion of Beacon Press' ReVisioning American History series--in which each book tells the nation's story through the lens of a marginalized group--the authors kept getting the same question, usually from a teacher: Is...