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A black-and-white photograph of a small boy wearing a birthday hat and holding a knife to cut a birthday cake topped with cowboys on bucking horses. The cake reads: "Happy Birthday Terry." At the bottom of the image is a typed caption that reads:…

Terry Evans, Chicago photographer, has photographed the prairies and plains of North America and the urban prairie of Chicago, combining both aerial and ground photography. Recent work explores working steel mills and Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier.…

A map of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska

L-R standing: J. Bassett, Hattie Ayres, May Gardner, Genevieve Howland Chalkley, Grace Colwell, Jeannette Wheeler; seated: Madge Bullene, Anna Drake, Edith Snow, Louise Towne, Grace Poff.

Utendi wa Mwana Kupona [Mwana Kupona’s Poem] is one of the most popular poems in Swahili literature. It was written around 1858 by Mwana Kupona binti Mshamu (c. 1810-1860) for her daughter, Mwana Hashima binti Sheikh (1841-1933). Didactic in purpose,…