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Doctors, lawyers, teachers. From business to health care, professionals are everywhere in America, but their contributions to the nation’s development are often relegated to the backdrop of history. Read More ?
The five extracts I previously suggested all come from different genres and periods, ranging from Handel in the early eighteenth-century to Wagner at the end of the nineteenth. Not only that, but where...
With no unified slogan, office, or central organizing committee authority, the tea party seems to defy definition. But as tea partiers decide whom to support for the Republican nomination, the principles...
What would it be like to get a love letter from one of America’s greatest writers?
Oliver Twisted Sister! Nicholas Nickelback! Bleak House of Pain! Head on over to Twitter to wrap up Dicken’s birthday week with some #musicaldickens Read More ?
As winter mists envelope Venice’s exotic skyline, with domes, rooftops, and towers retreating mysteriously like ghostlike forms, celebrations of Carnival cut through the fog and bring the floating city...
Happy birthday, Charles Dickens! The beloved novelist, social commentator, and travel writer (among his many hats) would have turned 200 today, and his fans are celebrating all year long with events around...
Since a very young age, Dr Martin Allen has been fascinated with coins. Here, in an exclusive interview, the author of ‘Mints and Money in Medieval England’, explains how this childhood fascination...
Contrary to his measured yet precise writing style in his classic works, Ernest Hemingway was a lively and effervescent correspondent in his letters to his family and friends.
Opera is such a hugely varied art form, especially now that the boundaries of the repertoire have been opened up to include works of every period, style, and nationality. But given this huge variety, where...
What inspired you to research this subject? I’m a night person – that’s the most basic inspiration. I wrote most of my dissertation at night, for example. Back when I was in graduate school,...
For those who missed The JFK Library’s December panel discussion of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume I, 1907-1922 featuring editor Sandra Spanier, Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon,...
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