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Day 2: 31 Days of Daily Inspiration From Brilliant Women

Menna van Praag | Posted 05.02.2013 | Healthy Living
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Menna van Praag

Why do we put things off? Is our fear of failure, disappointment or embarrassment really so great that we let it lay waste to our dreams? Perhaps. But we also procrastinate because we believe we'll live forever.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Prophetic Engine

Joan D. Hedrick | Posted 03.17.2013 | Religion
Read More: Pbs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Video, Abolition, Slavery, Religion and Politics, Abolitionists, American Experience, Religion News
Joan D. Hedrick

The fact that Christian ministers maintained a timid silence in face of the Fugitive Slave Law both infuriated Stowe and propelled her to speak out.

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40 Is Not the New Anything

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 09.23.2012 | Home
Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, John F. Kennedy, Billy Crystal, Aging, Bowling, Obama, Thirty, Birthday, Life, W. Somerset Maugham, Knitting, John Glenn, Rodney Dangerfield, Forty, Muchael Buble, Meg Ryan, 40th Birthday, 40, Home News
Susan Deily-Swearingen

I want my age to be my age. I've never been here before and I want to see what it's all about.

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Novelists Who Were More Enlightened Than Their Era

Dave Astor | Posted 06.19.2012 | Books
Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Women, Stereotypes, John Steinbeck, Wilkie Collins, Novels, Asian Americans, Racism, Alexandre Dumas, Anti-Racism, Biracial, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, African Americans, Books News
Dave Astor

The 1800s were of course a time of blatant racism, and many authors reflected that by depicting fictional characters of color in horribly stereotyped ways. Or they omitted those characters entirely, as if the world was populated by whites only.

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PHOTOS: 8 Things You Probably Don't Know About Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 08.30.2011 | Books
Read More: Alexandre Dumas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Famous Authors, Slidepollajax, John Steinbeck, Famous Author Facts, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Video, Books News
Dave Astor

Curiosity about great novelists has inspired me to read dozens of author biographies. In those books (and on the Web), one can discover many "wow"-inducing facts about renowned writers

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America's Forgotten Founders

Richard Albert | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bill of Rights, John Bingham, Frederick Douglass, Fourteenth Amendment, Politics News
Richard Albert

The Court's narrow focus on America's constitutional founding fathers obscures the importance of America's second founding that came with the abolition and the Civil War.

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The Race Factor: How Far We've Come

David S. Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Racism, Obama Assassination, Barack Obama Race, Presidents With Slaves, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Slavery, Huffpost Books, Politics News
David S. Reynolds

If the polls are accurate, for the first time an African American is poised to take the nation's highest political office. We can appreciate just how momentous this is by looking back in history.

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Uncle Barack's Cabin

Sara Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Barack Obama Uncle Tom, Barack Obama, Slavery, Politics News
Sara Davidson

The day after Obama claimed the nomination, a German newspaper ran a picture of the White House on its front page with the headline, "Uncle Barack's Cabin."

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