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Online Features

His Work Is Alive in Africa

[…] County, we were only taken through the basics of Quaker history, which told us that the founder of the Religious […]

George Busolo Lukalo

Online Features

The Quakers of Alice Elliott Dark’s Fellowship Point

[…] Quakerism when I was growing up. I knew the general history, but I didn’t know the specific history. I think […]

Sharlee DiMenichi

tonya thames taylor

[…] and human rights activist. She is an Associate Professor of History (American), founding director of the African American Studies Program, […]

Contributor’s List for Confronting the Legacy of Quaker Slavery

[…] area. Truth and peace of mind of our African American history is a form of reparations. Financial reparations is a […]

Avis Wanda McClinton et al.

Viewpoint

Quakers, Indian Boarding Schools, and Indigenous Justice Today

[…] incorporated into children’s education at Carlisle. During the school’s 39-year history, children were placed in “outings,” a program of servitude. […]

Sandra Boone Murphy

Nancy Gail Black Sagafi-nejad

[…] and Lubbock, Tex. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.; worked at the […]

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August 2022 Books

An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights

[…] This title will likely draw readers with an interest in history and women’s studies who anticipate that context for a […]

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

Features

Sheep Among Wolves

[…] and trust are distributed equally without regard for a person’s history, experience, or wisdom.  Judy*, a Friend and longtime social […]

Jade Rockwell

Online Features

Rethinking William Penn

[…] William Penn is the most widely recognized Quaker in U.S. history, in no small part due to his settling the […]

Trudy Bayer

Features

What Makes a Quaker Hero?

[…] punch to an enemy’s jaw didn’t change the course of history then. No, a trickle of incessant, unwavering protest built […]

Stuart E.W. Smith