Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Henry Mills Alden
Born: November 11, 1836
Died: October 7, 1919 (aged 82)
Bio: Henry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years from 1869 until 1919.
Known for:
- Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (1862)
- A Study of Death (1895)
- Magazine writing and the new literature (1908)
- God In His World (1890)







