For Walt Whitman, late spring was more than just a season. It symbolized growth, possibility, and democratic renewal. As June begins, it is worth returning to a poet whose work sought the spirit of the United...
As May rolls into June, ACTA continues to celebrate America’s 34th annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Since 1992, AAPI Month has honored the culture of the 25.2 million Americans who trace...
ACTA mourns the death of Robert Woodson on May 19, 2026. There is no single word that describes him better than “humanitarian”. He was a distinguished civil rights leader, author, and educator, but what...
A symbiotic relationship exists between the stories a nation tells and its civic identity. Popular culture is never neutral; it reflects the assumptions, priorities, and perspectives of its time. As those stories circulate, they...
In 1932, T.S. Eliot wrote: “The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility.” If he were...
Wanting to give back, but unsure of where to start, many donors default to the simplest option: writing a blank check to their alma mater and calling it a day. Universities, of course, are more than happy...
On May 11, 1918, renowned physicist and educator Richard Feynman was born in New York City. Instilled with a desire to understand, Feynman questioned what he didn’t know and sought the answers to his questions. This...
On the morning of April 19, 1775, British troops and colonial minutemen fired on each other at the battles of Lexington and Concord. Referred to eloquently in Emerson’s poem, “Concord Hymn,” as “the shot...
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