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#InContext: Margaret Mead

#InContext: Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was a 20th Century anthropologist who changed the way Western society views primitive cultures. Born in Philadelphia in 1901, she...

#InContext: Elie Wiesel

#InContext: Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. Born into a family of Romanian Jews in 1928, he found himself trapped in the Nazi concentration camp...

#InContext: White Helmets

#InContext: White Helmets

In the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, the White Helmets always run toward the bombs and screams. They are the Syrian Civil Defense. Nicknamed for...

#InContext: Charles Dickens

#InContext: Charles Dickens

During the Victorian Era, Charles Dickens wrote “Doctor Marigold,” a novella about a street peddler in search of happiness. The particular era in...

#InContext: Gandhi

#InContext: Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma meaning “Great Soul,” was born in 1869 to an elite family in northwest India. Influenced by Jainism,...

#InContext: Pope John Paul II

#InContext: Pope John Paul II

By: SUTTON ROACH Karol J. Wojtyla, known as Saint Pope John Paul II, was raised in a small Polish town during the anti-Semitism period. A faithful...

#InContext: Harriet Tubman

#InContext: Harriet Tubman

By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849. She made her way from her Maryland plantation to the city of Philadelphia, where she...