Why does Hester Prynne still feel braver than today’s celebrated heroines? This character spotlight revisits 'The Scarlet Letter' to examine quiet endurance, moral agency, chosen silence, and ...

Creative success depends far more on how people draw out the ideas all around them rather than their innate genius, writes ...

Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

The classic works from the early years of the country still provide the creative spark that inspires those who carry the ...

In the mid-1800s, she was a feminist firebrand—and the highest-paid newspaper columnist of her time.

Modern America Provides a Disgrace That’s Both Familiar and New Before the United States was united by its citizens’ right to ...

New Grove Baptist Church will markBlack History Month Sunday, Feb. 8, with awide-ranging program that links SouthsideVirginia ...

Michigan football continues to bolster its linebacker depth. The Wolverines added North Dakota State linebacker Nathaniel Staehling in the transfer portal on Sunday, Jan. 18 − he posted the news with ...

Derrick Callella, 42, allegedly sent the messages to a daughter and son-in-law of Nancy Guthrie after family members posted a ...