How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools

Journalist and documentarian — and Stuyvesant High School alumna — Laurie Gwen Shapiro profiles Alice de Rivera, whose 1969 case challenging Stuyvesant to open its enrollment to girls led to so many other male-only secondary schools and colleges to abandon gender-based exclusion.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jan 26, 2019
Length: 11 minutes (2,795 words)

Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America

An excerpt of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, about Billy Gawronski, a 17-year-old who was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 16, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,951 words)