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The Fiery Forge of Polarization

History shows that moments of political polarization are opportunities for change.

George R. Lakey

Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority

[…] guilt about the past: “We are not to blame for history—either its horrors or its legacy, but all of us […]

January 2020 Book Reviews

A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality

[…] download available at jchs.harvard.edu/research/books. “We like to think of American history as a continuous march of progress toward greater freedom, […]

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

Richard Kenneth Lee

[…] he attended Michigan State University (MSU), receiving a bachelor’s in history and education in 1971 and a master’s in European […]

Staff

Quaker Works April 2019

[…] providing Friends school educators the opportunity to learn about Quaker history, beliefs, testimonies, meeting for worship, and to explore the […]

Staff

January 2019 Books

Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma

[…] acknowledged and integrated into the individual’s or the community’s self-understood history. How is it that a religion born in trauma […]

Reviewed by Tom Paxson

October 2018 Books

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

[…] North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker religion has been a breeding ground for […]

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Georgana Falb Foster

[…] Meeting (NEYM), at which she gave several presentations on the history of Quaker women. Beginning in 1974 she served for […]

Staff

Forum April 2018

[…] but never compromise the truth arising from the facts of history. As I see it, the Trump supporters and those […]

Staff

News, March 2018

[…] Meeting. The episodes have touched on themes of justice, Quaker history, and Friends relationships with various groups and movements. Peacemaking […]

Staff