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The Wall
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...
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Young Izzie wishes he could join the Union Army with his brothers, Ario and Cal. He wonders what it would be like to “see the elephant”—soldier talk for going...
Wise Guy
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Greek philosophy for kids
“I know that I know nothing.”
With this classic statement, uttered over two thousand years ago, Socrates set the standard for...
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At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe,...