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Resilience won’t just be there when you need it. You have to train it.

Grit is something you can't learn in schools, but can only learn in the real world. Or, by watching this video. From Harvard historian Nancy Koehn, here's what great leaders throughout history can tell you about resilience.

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A lesson in power, significance, and influence from Abraham Lincoln

It wasn't until after President Lincoln's death that we would discover one of his most important lessons, hidden in his desk drawer.

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Here’s What 19th-Century American Cartoonists Thought of Russia

Way before there was Cracked or Mad magazine, there was Puck, a weekly satirical publication that came out of St. Louis, Missouri in 1871. Here are some of the incredible full-color illustrations of that era's political issues.