In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Charles Dickens visited Georgetown in 1842. "The heights of this neighborhood," he wrote, "are very picturesque; and are free, I should conceive, from some of the insalubrities of Washington. The air, ...

Any place well accustomed to the bawling of a bullock would have no bother dealing with the bellowing of auld Lehane and his ...

Great Malvern was a favoured destination of luminaries including Dickens and Elgar, and continues to attract visitors ...

Broadly speaking, there are two different issues that get intertwined together in the “kids can’t read” narrative. The first ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...

The cast for “Little Shop of Horrors” also includes Madeleine Garcia (Chiffon), Jessica Johnson (Crystal), Taylor J. Mitchell ...

There’s something magical about stumbling into a place that feels like it’s been quietly perfect for centuries, just waiting for you to discover it. That’s Fredericksburg, Virginia – a historical gem ...

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Some members of the group proposing a Montessori-style charter school in Schenectady, from left to right: Virginia Rawlins, ...

A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school curricula still rage.