Current brain research has established a positive link between preschoolers’ exposure to music, rhyme, and rhythm, and future reading ability. This offering, one of a series of titles created by a college professor with a master’s in... Read More

“Good! Now we shall have news from hell before breakfast,” quipped General Sherman upon hearing of the battlefield deaths of three pesky journalists. Damned by faint praise, these underappreciated war correspondents and their ilk... Read More

Recent explosions, assassinations, and kidnappings in Iraq are the latest gruesome outgrowths of the fourteen-centuries-old divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims, which began in the wake of the Prophet Muhammad’s death in the year 632.... Read More

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is deeply rooted in the late nineteenth century: Gardner’s art collection must remain unchanged, or else all objects will be auctioned off in Paris, with proceeds donated to Harvard... Read More