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56. The Role of Voluntarism & Volunteerism in America with Elisabeth Clemens

Volunteer Nation

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The Importance of Civic Gifts

In your book, you refer to contributions for the common good as civic gifts. Can you share a little bit more what you mean by that term? Part of being a citizen was to give in a way that built a nation as a whole. Early versions might have supported distributing Bibles or establishing Sunday schools.

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