Where did Valentine’s Day originate? For years, the consensus among historians was that the holiday had something to do with ...

Sinéad Strong is founder of Catholic Mothers Ireland, an organization that has drawn upon the life and example of St. Brigid ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Through my work with young people, I've developed concrete ways to connect with kids who are hurting. Here are just a few of ...

Feb. 14th is all about romance and love! Whether you're celebrating it with a partner, friends, or family, here's what you should know about its history.

Oruch argued that Chaucer's 1375 poem “Parlement of Foules” was the first to record St. Valentine's Day as a romantic ... Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine.” ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels ... Bowing our shoulders in the church's shadow, lean and whipped, To wait upon your Vespers, Mother of God! Through every precinct of the ...

English Aristocrat Sir Philip Sidney wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Poesy.” In this text, he defends the value of ...

Maria Chapdelaine — the fictional character from rural Quebec became a global phenomenon in the 1920s, and has inspired ...

Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger brother ... It comes as events to mark Holocaust Memorial Day are held across the West Midlands region.

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...