Stuart Hall, a noted writer and scholar who died in 2014, was one of those rare individuals from humble beginnings who parlayed a Rhodes Scholarship into an influential force on society, wrenching more experience out of his 82 years than several might expect from any one lifetime. His list of accomplishments is therefore difficult to […]
Zitkala-Ša
Gertrude Bonnin was an influential writer, activist, and musician at the turn of the 20th century who was better known as Zitkala-Ša (“Red Bird”), a North Dakota Sioux fathered by a white man she never knew. She was born in 1876 at a particularly bleak moment in American Indian history: the year of the Battle […]
Margaret Chase Smith
Appachian State University Dr. Mueller Com 1200 11/15/2022 Margaret Chase Smith Margaret Chase Smith was one of a handful of Representatives to enter office due to the death of a spouse – as she did in 1941, and then go on to be a very popular politician in her own right for the next 30 […]