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Microbe Hunters

AWiebe — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:34:21 +0000

Paul de Kruif, an American microbiologist and author, was most well-known for writing this classic bestseller, Microbe Hunters. His accounts of fourteen microbe hunting scientists are enlightening, engrossing, and paradoxically humorous and entertaining at the same time—Microbe Hunters has been on recommended reading lists, influencing many aspiring physicians and scientists, since 1926. These microbe hunters were pioneers searching for [...]

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Mary McLeod Bethune

AWiebe — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:27:52 +0000

Here’s the inspiring true story of a young girl determined to read, who went on to become a teacher, the founder of a college and a hospital, an adviser to politicians, and a great humanitarian. She was Mary McLeod Bethune, the fifteenth child of hardworking parents, and the first of her family born into freedom. [...]

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Gift of Black Folk

AWiebe — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:22:05 +0000

In 1924, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois (1868-1963) penned The Gift of Black Folk in response to systemic racism in the United States, showing that “...the American spirit is a new and interesting result of diverse threads of thought and feeling coming not only from America but from Europe and Asia and indeed from Africa.” Du [...]

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