In a new book, Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.

Journey Arts will present an evocative, original cello trio show – in Spanish and English – by visionary Philadelphia artist Daniel de Jesús. Learn more here!

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

The key to finding the elusive prize in the Yellowstone National Park lay within a cryptic 24-line poem; and adventurous ... notably the fact that five people died while looking for it.

George Mason Friends Book Sale. At George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale. Preview sale, ...

On warm days, take a dip at Grotta della Poesia (Poetry Cave), a picture-perfect ... between September and November. About five million people visit Chamonix a year, while a million others ...

Celebrated Hollywood actor Val Kilmer, known for his intense performances and iconic roles in Top Gun, Batman Forever and Heat, died of pneumonia, his daughter Mercedes Kilmer confirmed.The American ...

Did you always want to be a nurse? All through high school I wanted to be a nurse. I took my high school classes in science, in anatomy, knowing I wanted to go to nursing school. What’s ...

Racist poems were published about the president and ... s proclamation of American neutrality in France’s latest war with England. At 50 years old, he was eager to return to his beloved ...

Poetry, art, religion are precious things,” wrote John Dewey (1859–1952), a Vermont native and influential American philosopher, psychologist, and education reformer who emphasized experiential ...

I must have at least five or six completed manuscripts I never published, or partial manuscripts, so the idea that I’m writing about the Civil War is just good fortune that it happens to be an ...