Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader , published works including poetry, histories, essays and ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...

Jeremy Dauber’s “American Scary” traces the uncanny origins of the spookiest stories told in our young nation.

The Greenwich Village rowhouse housed one of NYC's most successful 19th-century African American businessmen and one of its first Off-Off-Broadway theaters.

As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

“I like to create roller-coasters in the ballet world, where the audience is really on the edge of their seat,” says ...

The U.S. has always gone through necessary periods of error before arriving at a more just and prosperous social outcome, ...

A commitment to the liberal arts is at the core of Princeton University's mission. Meet this year's cohort of outstanding ...

To facilitate wider access to this historical work, the authors have provided an extensive ... The text reflects the influential 19th-century psychophysiological model of melancholia as "mental ...

At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is ...

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of ...