A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt pours herself a cup of hot coffee. She takes a look outside at the scenery around her new home ...

Seven centuries ago, in the very first great work which we can read as English … a 17,000-line poem … the very third word is ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

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It’s the middle of April, in ’Twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry ...

Fragrance, for me, has to be the most ephemeral of luxuries, with scent as fleeting as a cloud yet its impact as eternal as ...

Writing on what passes for Nigerian politics today is a pathetic attempt at making meaning out of wretched absurdity.

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