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A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that bal... Read More about A Wild Idea: How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks

Cornell University has 21,600 students in 2015, about twice as many as it did in 1950. Half of them are women, compared with one-fifth back then. And more than one-third of today's Cornellians are black, Hispanic, or Asian. In 1950, all of the university's minority students probably could have fit i... Read More about Postwar Cornell: How The Greatest Generation Transformed A University, 1944-1952

The Riveting True Story of One Of the World’s Most Iconic Mission-Driven Companies Ben & Jerry’s has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world’s best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company’s success with all stakeholders: empl... Read More about Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's