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NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Regie Cabico, co-organizer of this year's Asian American Literature Festival that's holding events in Washington, D.C., after the Smithsonian cancelled a larger event.

What is worth teaching? And how do students learn? Veteran teacher Moira Birmingham re-examined these classic questions when faced with the job of reimagining Hamden’s American Literature curriculum.

In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of ...