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The Virginia Board of Education is delaying a vote on the state’s new history and social science standards by a month to address concerns with timing and a number of
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<p>Ken Burns, who collaborated with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on the selection, called "Gradually, Then Suddenly" a "complex, nuanced, layered" examination of the city's financial crisis and the political divide between Detroit and the state of Michigan. </p>
STONY BROOK, NY--November 2, 2021--Providing her vision for what she described as a "luminous, ambitious future," Maurie McInnis was officially inaugurated as the sixth president of Stony Brook University on Saturday, Oct. 23 at Island Federal Arena, before an enthusiastic crowd of faculty, staff, students, alumni, family and friends, along with local officials and representatives from colleges and universities from across the country. In her much anticipated inaugural address, McInnis asked the audience to think back nearly sixty years to October, 1962, when a handful of buildings b...
The Better Angels Society has named Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit as this year’s winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. The film, directed by Sam ...