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Karl Rove, 2005 News
one of President Bush's closest advisers, was revealed to be the secret source used by TIME magazine reporter Matt Cooper for a story he wrote in 2003 about the disclosure of the identity of…Valerie Plame Wilson, 2006 News
former covert CIA agent, and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, and presidential adviser…Walt Whitman: Continuities
ContinuitiesNothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identity, form—no object of the world. Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing; Appearance must not foil, nor shifted…Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Native Guard, her 2006 collection about black Union soldiers who guarded a fort off the coast of Mississippi during the U.S. Civil War.…Jacob Rabinow
Jacob RabinowBorn: 1910 Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Rabinow invented a process that allowed machine scanners to determine which letters or numbers were printed on a page. Over the…The Equal Pay Act
A History of Pay Inequity in the U.S. June 10, 1963: John F. Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act into law. Almost four decades later, men's and women's salaries have yet to reach parity. Related…2008 Caldecott Medal and Honor Books
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American picture book for children.…Walt Whitman: O Me! O Life!
O Me! O Life!O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more…Vine Deloria 2005 Deaths
Vine DeloriaAge: 72 leading American Indian scholar, famous for his many books on American Indian life and identity. His books were meant to shatter the stereotypes about American Indians.…Gish Jen Biography
Gish Jen novelistBorn: 1955 A second-generation Chinese American, Jen was raised in the large Jewish community of Scarsdale, New York. She received a degree in English from Harvard…Trending
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