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Colleen Glenney Boggs
CommentatorColleen Glenney Boggs is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College, whose area of expertise is American literature. She is also the director of the Leslie Humanities Center.
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It was on this date, just before midnight in 1912 that the ocean liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City with more…
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Ben Franklin wrote many things - including those wonderfully funny and memorable sayings he published in Poor Richard’s Almanac. He wrote scientific…
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There are so many important holidays from Thanksgiving to New Year that it’s easy to overlook December 10. But to me, that day’s especially important…
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With the weather turning cold, and Thanksgiving coming ever closer, I think about apple pie.We've taken the kids apple picking. We've filled more brown…