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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

By Reviewed by Dave Austin on June 1, 2018

By Helen Thorpe. Scribner, 2017. 396 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in September); $14.99/eBook. Imagine if you can that you are, [ā€¦]

Dave Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world history. He is currently at work on a young adult novel about the Holocaust in France.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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An Indigenous Peoplesā€™ History of the United States

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on January 1, 2017

By Roxanne Dunbarā€Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2014. 296 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. This book is part of Beacon Pressā€™s ReVisioning American History [ā€¦]

David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism. He previously worked for over 20 years as an attorney in the Indian Affairs Division of the Solicitorā€™s Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Posted in: January 2017 Books, January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace
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News June/July 2016

By Staff on June 1, 2016

Demonstrations, conferences, appointments, and Quakers on U.S. money.

Posted in: June/July 2016: Almost Quaker, News
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Forum, February 2016

By Staff on February 1, 2016

Working oneā€onā€one for change As a public librarian in the Nicetown section of Philadelphia, I see how much oneā€onā€one contact [ā€¦]

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: February 2016, Forum
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