It was two o'clock in the morning on Dec. 16, 1811, less than a week before Christmas, and many homesteaders new to the ...

I by Jayantha Somasundaram “Partition is the Englishman’s favourite way out of a difficulty. But it is a confession of ...

Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s ...

A Nativity play is a play which tells the stories around the birth of Jesus. They are typically performed by a primary school, or a Sunday School. The word nativity comes into English from Latin ...

Madeline Statton Oswald saw the 19th Amendment passed and danced through the Roaring Twenties. This is what Christmas was ...

Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He ...

November 29, 2024, was the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, which is regarded by some music historians as the end ...

I joined my parents in February 2023 for the funeral of our family friend Peg Daly, elementary school teacher of long tenure ...

As you may have gathered, the “Christ” in Christmas refers to Jesus Christ. “The English name for the holiday, Christmas, is ...

In recent decades, France’s Luberon region has been flooded with tourists. But its off-the-beaten-track charm can still be ...

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and Last Judgement. But who wrote ...

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...