Who Was Antony Van Leeuwenhoek?
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek is considered the first microbiologist. Some of his original letters can be read here.
Gabriel García Márquez: Off in the Clouds
A 1987 interview with the author of the beloved books One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Hillary Clinton: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
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Susan B. Anthony on Her Revolutionary Foremothers
Susan B. Anthony discusses how women's rights have evolved in a 1902 North American Review piece, "Woman's Half-Century of Evolution."
A Telephone Conversation with Malcolm X
This 1965 telephone conversation between Malcolm X and meeting organizers in Paris took place just weeks before his assassination.
A Vintage Op-Ed from Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders' February 2003: "On My Mind: The Patriot Act's Threat to Libraries" published in American Libraries.
Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
A historian of Latin America, and a victim of two dictatorships, Galeano was also inevitably a historian of the colossus to the north.