John Pepper - Pepperspectives
November 29, 2018

"Do I See Those Around Me?"

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Do I See Those Around Me? Really See Them? Intentionally see them? As Individuals, just like me.  The honest answer is: sporadically, ju...
November 16, 2018

Frederick Douglass: His Life and Values and What They Mean Today

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I just finished, early this morning,  ten days immersed in the inspiring biography of Frederick Douglass written by David Blight. ...
November 8, 2018

Why Has the Study of History Mattered to Me?

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(Drawn  from my Conversation with History Honors Majors at Yale University – November 2004) ·       More specifically, why has the le...
October 30, 2018

Love Trumps Hate--In Fact Love Is What It Is All About

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We should act on this from President Obama:  "We have to take these same values that are encouraged within our families--of lookin...
October 16, 2018

We Are Not Alone--My Classmate, Bart Giamatti

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We Are Not Alone  -- Independence is Achieved through Broadening our Connections: Intellectual, Spiritual and Human Bart Giamatti was a...

Empathy: The Golden Coin

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Our progress in understanding one another will only go so far as empathy takes us.   We can only have empathy if we walk in humility. ...
October 15, 2018

The Role Teachers Play in Building Our Expectations and Helping Us Become Who We Are

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Almost thirty years ago, in May, 1989, I addressed a group of award winning K-12 teachers.  I concluded my remarks saying that there ...
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