In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

The Village Voice remembers the art and provocations of the underground comix genius, Vaughn Bode, on the 50th anniversary of his death.

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Sarah-Ann Shaw, the pioneering Boston journalist who died last year at age 90, believed deeply in the power of education to change lives and uplift communities. A devoted supporter of public libraries ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Superman arrived on Earth a refugee from a dying world, adopted by farmers in the American heartland. But as the Man of Steel ...

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Avi Shlaim is one of Israel’s greatest historians. In his latest work, Shlaim excoriates the genocidal violence that Israel ...

Manley, a great grandson of Sean Mitchell, a former Irish Volunteer leader in Athlone, who later became OC of the Cork No 1 ...

The early characterisation of Superman chimes with a further British connection to Superman, of course. Co-creator Jerry ...

NJBIZ spotlights under-recognized health care leaders, from startup founders to behind-the-scenes pros driving innovation.

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?