Born in Falmouth, Katharine Lee Bates was a devoted social reformer, an anti-war activist, and a passionate defender of women ...

This week’s story, “ The Readers ,” takes the form of a one-sided conversation between a male writer and a female therapist. He’s addressing her as he analyzes his feelings about a decision she’s made ...

Looking for something to read for your holidays? Richard Fitzpatrick picks the top biographies, sports books and other ...

The Freedom Truck mobile museum program, rolling nationwide through December, amounts to six semi-trucks of Semiquincentennial pride.

Every tourist desperate to see an untouched paradise is part of a constant influx that risks despoiling the very thing they ...

While Aerosmith don't always seem like the sort of band who care about tight lyricism, Steven Tyler threw a fit when he was denied a particular word choice.

In America’s 250 years, Chicago has come alive on the page in rugged novels and mail-order catalogs, elegant poems, wax-engraved maps and brightly colored postcards. Oz, glittery and dreamlike, was ...

The State Board of Education approved this week new Bible-infused social studies curriculum and the first-ever statewide ...

Craig Fehrman’s new biographical history widens the points of view of this classic American adventure to include more of the ...

They've died from artillery fire, aircraft crashes, gunfire, disease — even by execution — in conflict zones and elsewhere ...

For centuries, Chand Bibi has existed in the spaces between history and legend. Remembered as the queen who defended Ahmadnagar against Mughal forces, she has a ...

Archaeologists working at the Reshui cemetery in Dulan County, Qinghai Province, recovered fragments of gold armor from a ...