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National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep has accepted the invitation to serve as the commencement speaker for the University of Minnesota Morris on Saturday, May 13.  Host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First, Inskeep has a passion for stories of the less famous: Pennsylvania truck drivers, Kentucky coal miners, U.S.-Mexico border detainees, Yemeni refugees, California firefighters, American soldiers.  

When her husband died in 1968, Dorothy Leavell took over as owner and publisher of both the Chicago and Gary Crusader newspapers. She assumed editorial

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Steve Inskeep is a co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. There are 17 cities and towns in the United States named Fremont, including Fremont, Iowa. The man who gave these landmarks his name played an important part in U.S. history, but has been largely forgotten. John C. Fremont and his wife, Jessie Barton Fremont, led remarkable lives that helped shape our nation in important ways. Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR's Morning Edition, brings them back to life in his new book, "Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War." Talk of I...