Before coming to D-E, History Department Chair, Arika “Ari” Easley-Houser taught at Rutgers Prep and several colleges and universities, including Montclair State University and New York University. A socio-cultural historian focused on United States history, she received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and a certificate in school management from the Harvard Business School. She was recently selected for a National Association of Independent Schools Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads. Now in her third year of heading the department, Easley-Houser speaks to the importance of historical inquiry for students and how the history curriculum must reflect and respond to the diversity of students. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Ozone Journal

Ozone Journal

For four decades, Peter Balakian’s poetry has received critical acclaim in the United States and abroad for its inventive language and its forays into history. “Ozone Journal” is the most accomplished book of a distinctive American voice.

Dwight-Englewood School: Celebrating Our Story

Dwight-Englewood School: Celebrating Our Story

“Dwight-Englewood School: Celebrating Our Story” provides a framework for understanding the evolution and growth of Dwight School, the Englewood School for Boys, the Bede School, and Dwight-Englewood, while dipping in for a closer look at some aspects of life and learning at all the schools.

Crush Songs

Crush Songs

Karen “O” Orzolek ’96
Cult Records
September 2014

In an artist’s statement about this album, Karen O writes, “When I was 27, I crushed a lot. I wasn’t sure I’d ever fall in love again. These songs were written and recorded in private around this time. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing LOVE CRUSADE. I hope they keep you company on yours.”

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain P ‘28
Crown Publishers
2012

Susan Cain’s award-winning New York Times bestseller is currently being translated into over thirty-five languages and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine.

Cain’s book was the subject of a TIME magazine cover story, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Cain has also spoken at Microsoft, Google, the U.S. Treasury, Harvard and West Point. Her record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 5 million times, and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks.

Bookends: Stories Of Love, Loss, And Renewal

Bookends: Stories Of Love, Loss, And Renewal

Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold ’65/Former Faculty
Independent Publisher Services
January 2014

The wedding that turns feast into fiasco; the childhood games that foreshadow life’s realities; dreams of romance shattered and reborn; professional and creative identities forged, challenged, and affirmed; farewells presaged and paid – these eight poetic and poignant stories, reflected through the prism of love and loss, ultimately offer the reader epiphanies of renewal. New fiction by the award-winning author of Raising Rufus: A Maine Love Story & The Whaler’s Bride . . . A fine collection, her best so far with a command of dialogue, flashbacks handled gracefully, and seamlessly and stream-of-consciousness very un-self-conscious.