Videos from the 2025 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature’s most misunderstood animal—the shark.

A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us.

A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming.

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through climate solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.

The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system.

A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds.

America’s favorite government teacher Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. hrough meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.