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

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

In her widely panned, sotto voce response to the State of the Union address in March, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt had a message for ...

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 ...

An 1867 painting lent by the Autry Museum of the American West shows an arriving ... to urban and industrial economies during ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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