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The relationship is clear: The more books a family owns, the greater the educational gains are for children. Mariah Evans, a socio...

The world is blowing up, seemingly confronted by a violent new crisis every day: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria, the East-West standoff in...

The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Th...

Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek puts the value of quality teaching in stark economic terms. Place even a slightly above-average t...

Granted, there are creative lone wolves out there. But history and social psychology tell us that success stems far more often from one-to-one collabo...

Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their famil...

Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and th...

For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...

The image still haunts: desperate refugees on a Saigon rooftop, snaking up a ladder to a waiting helicopter and escape from the North Vietnamese on Ap...