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High-Quality Child Care Profoundly Affects Developing Brain by rina irwin-5/31/2024
Headwinds Facing BIPOC Providers Compromise Development of All Children By Tiffany LaVette-5/10/2024
The Case for Investing in Erie’s Childcare System By Andrea Heberlein-3/22/2024
“Childcare Experts Present High Stakes, Make Case for Growing Erie, Pennsylvania's Economy by Nurturing OurChildren”-2/23/2024
colin heeneman
Writer, JES Intern
justice in sports, scar on the beautiful game: human rights in Qatar and beyond -7/31/2022
Rev. Charles Brock
Brock Institute for Mega Issues
Lawrence, Engels on Love and Justice - 04/14/2020
Pat Cuneo, B.A.
Jefferson Publications Coordinator
Washington’s Character, Actions Bring Solace in Modern-Day America - 03/30/2020
Dr. Andrew Roth
Jefferson Scholar-in-Residence
Mary Oliver and Jack Gilbert - 04/02/2020
This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore - 04/09/2020
The Composite Nation by Fredrick Douglass - 04/16/2020
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose: Whitman, Walt. - 04/23/2020
A GENERATION OF SOCIOPATHS: HOW THE BABY BOOMERS BETRAYED AMERICA - 04/30/2020
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - 05/07/2020
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters Part One - 05/21/2020
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY EDGAR LEE MASTERS PART TWO - 05/28/2020
Years of Horrors: 1968 and 2020 - 06/04/2020
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism - 6/18/2020
On Leadership: Part 1 - 06/25/2020
On Leadership: Part 2 - 07/02/2020
ON LEADERSHIP: PART 3 - 07/09/2020
'Gleanings' from Contemporary Poetry - 07/16/2020
Trump Meets Beowulf - 07/23/2020
'It Happens': John Lennon Said it Best - 07/30/2020
'How Democracies Die' & 'On Tyranny' - 08/06/2020
What Were Machiavelli's True Motives? - 08/13/2020
So, How Did the South Win the Civil War? - 08/27/2020
'Rocky Dies Yellow' & Other Readings in Contemporary American Poetry - 09/03/2020
First thing’s first: Let’s Leave Fantasyland Behind - 09/10/2020
Winthrop’s Lesson: Americans must love and care for one another - 09/17/2020
Mediated America Part One: Superman Comes to the Supermarket - 09/24/2020
Mediated America Part Two: Who Was Marshall McLuhan & What Did He Say? - 10/01/2020
Baseball & Poetry - It’s October and Major League Baseball Playoff Time! - 10/08/2020
1920 World Champion Cleveland Indians Rocked - 10/15/2020
Women, Baseball & Poetry - 10/22/2020
Leadership Part Four: Integrity: the Heart of Leadership - 10/29/2020
William Butler Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’ - 11/05/2020
‘What’s Become of the Common Good?’ - 11/12/2020
Happy Thanksgiving! Be Grateful for Hale, Child, too - 11/23/2020
Poetry in a Time of Plague - 12/03/2020
New Book on Presque Isle Belongs in Every Home - 12/09/2020
’Twas the night before Christmas… - 12/17/2020
‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ - 12/23/2020
‘Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, And Auld Lang Syne!’ - 12/31/2020
Reflections on a New Year, Worry, and Great Poetry - 1/07/2021
Heroic Centrism: How We Got To Now - 1/14/2021
Heroic Centrism: Rebuilding the Center - 1/21/2021
President Biden’s Inaugural Address And What We Share - 1/28/2021
The Paranoid Style in American Politics - 2/4/2021
Valentine Verse: The Pause That Refreshes - 2/11/2021
who was george washington - 2/18/2021
What's your favorite poem - 2/25/2021
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet, Activist, Cultural Icon - 3/4/2021
alone together: part one - 3/11/2021
ALONE TOGETHER: PART two - 3/18/2021
Retrospective: A Year of Book Notes - 3/25/21
Readers’ Favorite Poems: Part One - 4/1/21
READERS’ FAVORITE POEMS: PART two - 4/8/21
'This and That’ & Wallace Stevens - 4/15/21
robert e. lee - traitor? - 4/22/21
hiatus and free, digital global summit xii - 4/29/21
HIATUS AND FREE, DIGITAL GLOBAL SUMMIT XII - 5/6/21
Readers favorite poems (part three) - 6/3/21
celebrate Juneteenth on saturday - 6/17/21
Six Patriotic Songs for a Joyous July Fourth part one- 6/24/21
SIX PATRIOTIC SONGS FOR A JOYOUS JULY FOURTH part two - 7/1/21
Re-Run Book Notes -- On Leadership: Part 1 - 7/8/21
RE-RUN BOOK NOTES -- ON LEADERSHIP: PART 2 - 7/15/21
RE-RUN BOOK NOTES -- ON LEADERSHIP: PART 3 - 7/22/21
book notes #68: Take me out to the ball game's "feminist" origins - 7/29/21
BOOK NOTES #69: after nationalism - 8/5/21
BOOK NOTES #70: more readers' favorite poems - 8/12/21
BOOK NOTES #71: songs of freedom, songs of protest: part one - 8/19/21
BOOK NOTES #72: SONGS OF FREEDOM, SONGS OF PROTEST: PART TWO - 8/26/21
BOOK NOTES #73: SONGS OF FREEDOM, SONGS OF PROTEST: PART THREE - 9/2/21
BOOK NOTES #75: on turning 75 - 9/30/21
BOOK NOTES #75 2.0: more thoughts and corrections ON TURNING 75 - 10/7/21
BOOK NOTES #76: SHAKESPEARE IN A DIVIDED AMERICA - 10/14/21
BOOK NOTES #77: MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY - 10/21/21
BOOK NOTES #78: BOO! IT'S HALLOWEEN! - 10/28/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: 'HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE' & 'ON TYRANNY'- 11/4/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: WHAT WERE MACHIAVELLI'S TRUE MOTIVES? - 11/11/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: Happy Thanksgiving! Be Grateful for Hale, Child, too - 11/18/21
BOOK NOTES #79: A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! - 12/2/21
BOOK NOTES #80: A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! (PART 2) - 12/9/21
BOOK NOTES #81: COMICALLY, A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! (part 3) - 12/16/21
BOOK NOTES #82: A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! (PART 4) - 12/22/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT, AND AULD LANG SYNE - 12/30/21
THE GREAT GATSBY: 'ALMOST 100 AND COUNTING'- 1/6/22
JOAN DIDION: 'WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES'- 1/13/22
Arthur Sze: Present-to-the-Present - 1/27/22
A Snowfall of Winter Poems - 2/3/22
BOOK NOTES #90: BANNED BOOKS- BURNING IDEAS CREATES A STENCH-2/24/22
BOOK NOTES #91: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE- 3/3/22
BOOK NOTES #92: SARA JOSEPHA HALE- SOMEONE YOU NEED TO KNOW- 3/10/22
Book Notes #93 Happy St. Patricks Day - 3/17/22
Book Notes #94 Lydia Maria Child First Woman of the Republic - 3/24/22
BOOK NOTES #95 SEVERAL 'AMAZING 19TH CENTURY WOMEN LOST TO HISTORY - 3/31/22
BOOK NOTES #98 GREAT POEMS ABOUT SPRING (PART ONE)- 4/21/22
BOOK NOTES #99 GREAT POEMS ABOUT SPRING (PART TWO)- 4/28/22
BOOK NOTES #100 BASEBALL MUSIC: A PRIMER (PART ONE)- 5/5/22
BOOK NOTES #101 BASEBALL MUSIC: A PRIMER (PART TWO)- 5/12/22
Classic Book Notes #5 The Composite Nation: Frederick Douglass 5/26/22
CLASSIC BOOK NOTES #46 'THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS' 6/2/22
Book Notes #102 1968/2022: The Seeds of our Discontents (Part One) 6/9/22
Book Notes #104 1968/2022: The Seeds of Our Discontents (Part Three) Race in America- 6/30/2022
Book Notes #107 1968/2022: The Seeds of Our Discontents (Part Six) The Counterculture- 7/14/2022
Book Notes #108 1968/2022: The Seeds of Our Discontents (Part Seven) Music, Music, Music- 7/21/2022
Book notes #109: POEMS OF OPTIMISM AND HOPE- 7/28/2022
book notes #110 1968/2022: The Seeds of Our Discontents (Part Eight) Mediated America- 8/4/2022
book notes #112 Summer Poems: ‘Ah, summer, the season when soft is the sun'- 8/18/2022
book notes #113 watermelons!- 8/25/2022
Classic Book Notes #56 September 2022 (Originally April 2021)- 9/2/2022
book notes #115 What Is the best “Book Note” Ever Written?- 9/15/2022
book notes #116 Autumn Poems- 9/22/2022
Classic Book Notes #77 'My Name is Pauli Murray'- 9/30/2022
book notes #117 what is the greatest poem of all-time?- 10/6/2022
book notes #118 insights on how civil wars start- 10/13/2022
Book Notes #119 Who is Vladimir Putin?- 10/20/2022
book notes #120 Hill Draws Unlikely Parallels between America, England, Russia- 10/27/2022
Book notes #121 James Madison: America’s First Politician- 11/3/2022
Classic Book Notes #34 ‘The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good’- 11/10/2022
Classic Book Notes #35- 11/18/2022
book notes #122 the hardest job in the world- 12/1/2022
book notes #123 the american way of christmas: part one-12/19/2022
classic book notes #36 ‘Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, And Auld Lang Syne!’-12/29/2022
book notes #127 The Seeker Seeking-1/12/2023
book notes #128 ‘Little Women,’ ‘Home,’ and ‘The Cult of True Womanhood'- 1/19/2023
Book Notes #129 Fire and Ice- 1/26/2023
book notes #130 Happy Groundhog Day!- 2/2/2023
book notes #131 love poems for valentine's day-2/9/2023
book notes #132 voting rights: 'our unfinished march'-2/16/2023
book notes #133 Sporting America: Sports in American Society (Part One)- 2/23/2023
book notes #135 What is the best sports poem ever?-3/9/2023
book notes #136 ChatGPT & the Future of Humanity-3/16/2023
book notes #137 the death of the daily news-3/23/2023
book notes #139 coda to bn #138: kurt vonnegut's 'slaughterhouse-five'-4/6/2023
book notes #140 national poetry month-4/13/2023
book notes #141 high school poetry (part one)- 4/20/2023
book notes #142 high school poetry (part two)- 4/27/2023
book notes #143 chatgpt & high school poetry-5/4/2023
book notes #144 americans and their games (part one)-5/11/2023
book notes #145 Further Adventures with ChatGPT-5/18/2023
book notes #149 further adventures with chatgpt: poems about june-6/15/2023
book notes #150 'chatting' with chatgpt4-6/22/2023
classic book notes #14 on leadership (part one)-7/13/2023
classic book notes #15 on leadership (part two)-7/20/2023
classic book notes #16 on leadership (part three)-7/27/2023
classic book notes #32 on leadership (part four) integrity: the heart of leadership-8/3/2023
book notes #153 'americans & their games' (part IV-B) 8/17/2023
book notes #154 'Americans and their games' (part iv-c)-8/24/2023
book notes #155 dana giola: poet with an mba-9/1/2023
book notes #156 gary snyder beyond the "beats"-9/7/2023
book notes #157 'this,' 'that,' and 'the other'-9/14/2023
book notes #158 'rich men north of richmond'-9/21/2023
book notes #159 americans and their games: sports and the immigrant's tale-10/5/2023
book notes #160 americans and their games: sports and the immigrant's tale II-10/12/2023
book notes #161 veteran journalist, author peter baker to open global summit on monday-10/19/2023
book notes #162 global summit "week two" a look at ai and the human future, 'what's wrong with the boys?' and a 5-timeJEOPARDY CHAMPION-10/26/2023
book notes #163 global summit "week three" daily life in the ancient world-11/2/2023
book notes #164 americans & their games: Sports and the immigrant's tale iii- 11/16/2023
classic book notes #36 be grateful for hale, child, too-11/23/2023
book notes #165 americans & their games: sports and the immigrant's tale Iv-11/30/2023
classic book notes #79 a-caroling we will go! part one-12/7/2023
classic book notes #80 season's greetings, happy holidays, and merry christmas to all!-12/13/2023
classic book notes #82 a-caroling we will go! part four-12/28/2023
classic book notes #126 twelfth night and holidays' end-1/4/2024
book notes #166 'how democracies die' & 'on tyranny'-1/11/2024
Classic book notes #87 a snowfall of winter poems-1/18/2024
classic book notes #129 fire and Ice-1/25/2024
classic book notes #1 the while album-2/1/2024
book notes #167 This, That, and the Other II-2/12/2024
book notes #168 jack gilbert-2/15/2024
classic book notes #147 "Americans & Their Games’ (Part IIIA) Freedom’s Faultlines: African Americans & Sports in AmericanHistory-2/23/2024
classic book notes # 95 Several ‘Amazing’ 19th Century Women Lost to History-3/14/2024
classic book notes #98 Great Poems About Spring (Part One)-3/21/2024
classic book notes #99 Great Poems About Spring (Part Two)-3/27/2024
classic book notes #24 So, How Did the South Win the Civil War?-4/16/2024
classic book notes #24 First thing’s first: Let’s Leave Fantasyland Behind-4/18/2024
classic book notes #33 William Butler Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’-4/25/2024
book notes #169 Jack Gilbert-5/2/2024
Book Notes #170 Eric Hoffer and ‘The True Believer’-5/9/2024
book notes #171 ‘Words, words, words’ Shakespeare, Hamlet, II, ii, 210-5/16/2024
book notes #172 Marriage-5/23/2024
book notes #173 pay attention to the present!-5/30/2024
book notes #174 Poems About June-6/7/2024
book notes #175 Who Is the Most Important Woman in American History?-6/13/2024
Book Notes #176 Can Democracy Be Saved?-6/25/2024
Book Notes #177 ‘True Americanism’-6/27/2024
classic book notes #64 Six Patriotic Songs for a Joyous July Fourth!-7/4/2024
Book Notes #178 What Does It Mean to Be an American?-7/11/2024
Book Notes #179 “This, That, & the Other III”-7/18/2024
book notes #180 summer heat-7/25/2024
book notes #181 Women’s Suffrage (Part One): The Anti-Suffragists-8/15/2024
Book Notes #182 Women’s Suffrage (Part Two): Pioneer Women-9/3/2024
Book Notes #183 Visions of America & The American Tapestry-9/3/2024
Book Notes #111 1968/2022: The Seeds of Our Discontents -9/3/2024
CLASSIC BOOK NOTES: WOMEN, BASEBALL & POETRY - 9/12/24
BOOK NOTES #184 SEPTEMBER: A POETIC SAMPLER -9/18/24
BOOK NOTES #185: ‘THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS’-9/26/24
BOOK NOTES #186 ‘OATH AND HONOR’-10/3/24
BOOK NOTES #187 ‘HOW TO LIVE’-10/10/24
book notes #188 'to be or not to be ...' -10/17/24
BOOK NOTES #189 'HAPPY HALLOWEEN'-10/31/24
Book Notes #190 Glaude’s Book Is About Far More Than Leadership-11/7/2024
Book Notes #191 Election Analysis -11/14/24
Book Notes #192 This, That, and the Other V -11/21/2024
Book Notes #193 ‘Over the River and Through the Wood’-11/28/20
Book Notes #74 Songs of Freedom, Songs of Protest Part Four: Bob Dylan "It Ain't Me Babe"-1/9/25
Book Notes #194 “This, That, & the Other VI” Bob Dylan: ‘A Complete Unknown’-1/16/2025
Book Notes #195 “This, That, & the Other VI” Bob Dylan: ‘A Complete Unknown’-1/23/2025
Book Notes #196 “This, That, & the Other VIII” Poets, Politics & the Temper of Our Times-1/30/25
Book Notes #198 “This, That, & the Other X” The Art of Power ... or Maybe Not-2/13/25
BOOK NOTES #200 WHY BLACK HISTORY IS IMPORTANT – PART I-2/27/2025
Book Notes #202 Reminding Americans Who We Are-3/13/2025
Classic Book Notes #119 Who is Vladimir Putin?-4/10/2025
Classic Book Notes #10 Spoon River Anthology Part Two of Two-4/24/25
Classic Book Notes #26 Winthrop’s Lesson: Americans Must Love and Care for One Another-5/1/2025
Classic Book Notes #48 Who was George Washington?-5/8/2025
Book Notes #203 H.O. Hirt: An Exemplary Leader-5/15/2025
Classic Book Notes #90 Banning Books: Burning Ideas Creates a Stench-5/22/25
Classic Book Notes #132 Voting Rights: ‘Our Unfinished March’-5/29/25
Classic Book Notes #109 Poems of Optimism and Hope-6/12/25
Classic Book Notes #62 Celebrate Juneteenth on Thursday-6/19/25 Originally 6/21
Classic Book Notes #180 Summer Heat-7/3/2025 Originally 7/24
BOOK NOTES #204 A “MINI” NOTE: TWO POEMS BY LOUISE GLÜCK-7/17/25
