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Beyond fathering a nation, founding a great university, and leaving a legacy as an architect and inventor, Thomas Jefferson was a forefather of mod...

Historians have long pointed to the devastation of smallpox and other European-introduced diseases in tracing the demise of North America’s indigen...

Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...

Like so many others in the late 1930s, the young black Americans who would become known as the Tuskegee Airmen were eager for military service as the...

Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...

Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’...

Two of youth literature’s best-known authors discuss their new books—Daniel Handler’s Why Is This Night Different from A...

Defying dire predictions that they would not survive the turn of the millennium, public libraries continue to thrive. Two out of three Americans vi...

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich worries that America’s economic recovery is bypassing most Americans. Adjusted for...