John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged. By Jennifer Schuessler One day in 1855, a man ...

Fletcher’s Storythinking explains the vast role that storythinking plays in human affairs as chains of narratives drive ...

Many organizations working toward social change understand the power of stories to transform how people think about and act on issues. It follows that a common question among movement leaders, ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...

How do we get people of all political identities to willingly support social progress without compromising anyone’s values? In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans ...

In Paul Murray’s novel Skippy Dies, there’s a point where the main character, Howard, has an existential crisis. “‘It’s just not how I expected my life would be,’” he says. “‘What did you expect?’” a ...

Had Narrative Science—a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company's Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball toss from ...

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost, 1874-1963, “The Road Not Taken” When individual teachers or entire schools are faced with the desire/need to ...

London South Bank University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. During a January 2023 speech on “building a better future” the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, insisted that “we can ...