Gabor loved teaching and was a dedicated professor. In 1978, he published his first book, Lincoln and the Economics of the ...

The Smithsonian Institution is restoring a gunboat that sank in a 1776 Revolutionary War battle. As part of a series with the ...

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Magoffin Baptist Institute (MBI) was chartered in 1905 and initially operated in Salyersville, Magoffin County, Ky. It was ...

"To George Truman Flinders, known to family and friends as 'Judd,' life was a chessboard, with vision, planning, strategy and determination bringing a successful outcome." ...

Dear Prudence, My boyfriend and I grew up in very different circumstances. His brother idolizes a type of politica ...

On a Georgian farm on the doorstep of the Wicklow Way, a story of perseverance, preservation, and pride of place that began in the aftermath of World War Two is being carried into a fourth generation ...

Demi Dauterive uses a bamboo swab to dab acetone around the drawing, careful not to apply too much of the solution at once. The sketch is a rendering of a man driving a mule-drawn wagon stacked high ...

I sat holding a beautiful scarf — a Christmas present from many years ago. The magnificence of its interwoven patterns of red and black was particularly amazing because the woman who had knitted it ...

The first half of the 1940s were marked by World War II, from watching updates with worry in Times Square to walking through rubble in London, all while trying to press on as though everything was ...

The smooth, rounded indentations have a way of humanizing the ancient canoe secured in the covered gallery behind the LSU Rural Life Museum's barn. These are places where people's backsides wore down ...