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New college tour highlights slaverys shadow Follow Us Question of the Day By CHARLES THOMPSON and PennLive.com - Associated Press - Saturday, April 17, 2021 CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) - Dickinson College has long been proud of its Colonial-era history, one framed forever by its standing as the first college to be chartered west of the Susquehanna River, launched to ensure the expanding frontiers of the new American nati...

Mercer was born on January 17, 1725, at Pitsligo Kirk, the family farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His parents were William Mercer, a Presbyterian minister, and Ann Monro Mercer. By 1744, he had obtained a medical degree from the University of Aberdeen. Mercer and his family were Jacobites, meaning that they supported the restoration of the Stuarts to the English throne. The Stuart king James II, a Catholic, had been deposed in 1688 by the Dutch Protestant William III and his wife, Mary, who wa...

COVID drives medical students into political activism 12 hours ago Doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in an event in solidarity with George Floyd and other coloured Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California. File/Agence France-Presse Victoria Knight, Tribune News Service Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemi...

On April 14, 2010, the devastating magnitude-7.1 Yushu earthquake staggered northwest China.

“People were needlessly dying while our leaders were failing.”

By Kristal Sotomayor In order to understand the rich history of criminal reform work, up through the vivid stories of crime and punishment presented in the docuseries Philly D.A., it is important to recognize Philadelphia’s origin story, as it were. This is by no means meant to reflect the entirety of Philadelphia’s complex history around criminal justice, but think of it as a primer on pivotal moments that lead to where we are now. First, we’ll go Philadelphia Political Activism Goes W...

Dickinson College adds context to its history through new campus tour highlighting slavery’s shadow Updated Apr 07, 2021; Facebook Share Dickinson College has long been proud of its Colonial-era history, one framed forever by its standing as the first college to be chartered west of the Susquehanna River, launched to ensure the expanding frontiers of the new American nation would have access to future leaders educated to the highest standards of the day. But what about the people who - at th...

Fact-checking Bidens speech announcing new executive actions on gun control In his address calling for gun policy reform, President Biden said Congress should ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines as well as end immunity for gun manufacturing companies that prevents them from being sued. Posted: Apr 8, 2021 1:14 PM Updated: Apr 9, 2021 2:45 PM Posted By: CNN In the wake of another series of mass shootings around the US, President Joe Biden announced several gun-control focused exec...

Events of 2020 moved medical students to political activism Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting masters or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree. But their decisi...

Timeless Wisdom: George Washington Deemed Religion and Morality Essential to Political Prosperity George Washington said something that many modern Americans would find nonsensical—and he did so not in some private document, but in perhaps the most public statement of his career, his Farewell Address published just prior to the end of his presidency. He said the following: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable support...