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Chloe Shaw

Chloe Shaw lives in Connecticut with her husband, two kids, two cats, and two dogs. She writes fiction and nonfiction.

What Is a Dog?

What Is a Dog?

Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

by Chloe Shaw | Monday, March 05, 2018
Spring, 1988

Spring, 1988

Time does nothing to lessen the pain of sexual assault

by Chloe Shaw | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Pictures

Pictures

Reflecting on gun violence from the Happiest Place on Earth

by Chloe Shaw | Tuesday, April 03, 2018
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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What Does Columbus Day Really Mean?

by William J. Connell

Whether you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Discoverers’ Day, or Native Americans’ Day, historian William J. Connell observes that, in the end, this controversial civic holiday is just that: a holiday. In his essay “What Columbus Day Really Means,” Connell writes that President Benjamin Harrison created the holiday in 1892 to honor both Native Americans and the many immigrants who were only then arriving in the country. “It was to be a national holiday that was not about the Founding Fathers or the Civil War, but about the rest of American history,” Connell writes—a day for celebrating the country and all its people. Sounds to us like a pretty good reason to take the day off of work.