“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that in 1953. Most people read it as a philosophical puzzle. For most of the twentieth century, we treated it as one. The question we asked about…
Belva Ann Lockwood, the first woman to be nominated for President in 1884 by the “Equal Rights Party.” If women had the right to vote in 1884, she may well have been our Nation’s first woman president. But Women’s right…
Pages from the Ocean’s Story Much of what we know about the ocean begins with a signal. A whale’s call moving through dark water. A life form thriving where sunlight never reaches. A legal protection that holds — because people…