What was left of the hymn, archeologists found 100 years ago in ancient Egyptian ruins on a scrap of tattered papyrus, long ...

When Mahalia Jackson sings, Heaven listens. And if you’ve ever had one of her songs catch you mid-tear, mid-praise, or ...

Canton's John Danner created a revolving, wooden bookcase in the late 1800s, and the vintage models and newly built versions ...

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

He refused to succumb himself to the ways of the world, to the standard norms and boxes that people wanted to put him in,’ ...

Radical and restive By the early 1800s Merthyr Tydfil was the most populated town in Wales, drawing migrants from all corners of Wales, Ireland, England and Spain. Coal, iron and steel were the ...

New Africa – stock.adobe.com “I told him that the $1,800 a week was not worth it,” continued the brunette, who purportedly held a position in investment property sales. If she did earn ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...

Did you know that Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has written books, and that they suck? That’s not the news! (Many recent Supreme Court justices have written books while on the bench ...