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2020 LOA in the Classroom: Students learn America’s founding principles

“She (Butler) seems to have seen the real future coming in a way few other writers did” — enjoy a teaser for our forthcoming Octavia Butler edition with a handy @AP primer.
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American Conservatism: An “intellectual tradition worthy of respect and consideration”
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Dashiell Hammett, “Zigzags of Treachery”
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Viet Thanh Nguyen: We still live in Ralph Ellison’s moment
Guest post by the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winner in Fiction.
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Free for for U.S. high school teachers: The Essential Debate on the Constitution

New & Noteworthy

Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 LOA N°330
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach LOA N°328
American Birds: A Literary Companion
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories LOA N°327

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