Samuel Gridley Howe

She was Helen Keller before Helen Keller. Then her mentor abandoned their studies.

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

We keep trying to assess schools quantitatively instead of grappling with some deeper problems.

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.