On nights when I cannot sleep I often get in my car, put my sunroof down, and just drive. Not...
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I've Got a Bridge to Sell You "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you." This is a...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon spoke those words while accepting Israel’s first Nobel Prize (and only prize in the Literature category), the...
In the early 1900s, before radio and swimming pools, the arrival of the Chautauqua circuit in small-town America was as...
Anne Bradstreet In reading Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue,” I sense what might be America’s first feminist publication. This poem, printed...
History provides the looking glass through which one can view the past and understand how events happened, and the outcome...