Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré...

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For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee,...

Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in th...

Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former presidential...

Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...

Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real con...

They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – and t...