The theater bug first nibbled at Rachael VanWormer when she played Mary in her daycare center’s Nativity scene, holding a very heavy, plaster baby Jesus. When she was in fourth grade and had to ...
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism. GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the court for outlawing ...
Celebrity Gossip. Bestselling Novelists. The Crime of the Century. The 19th century, that is. These are some of the topics that will be discussed at an unusual book fair Sunday at the University of ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass-- In 1890, living in Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson sent a letter to his fellow writer Henry James, explaining a momentous decision on his part: Disillusioned with a rapidly changing, ...
Write Out Loud’s 12 th annual TwainFest will be held later this month, with limited capacity. TwainFest is an all-day, free festival celebrating Mark Twain plus the literature and culture of 19 th ...
“Here we are at Lewes,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote in her novella, "Earthen Pitchers," as a small group of travelers disembarked from the train on the edge of town. “They were alone on the grassy ...
Victoria Puchal Terol does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
NORMAL PEOPLE. By Sally Rooney. Hogarth. 273 pages. $26. “Conversations with Friends” (2017), Sally Rooney’s first novel, came out of nowhere, like a great gulp of something fresh and young. Now comes ...
When Oscar Wilde was jailed for, "gross indecency," a 19th century euphemism for gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 ...
User-Created Clip March 10, 2012 2012-02-04T20:19:00-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1aa/20120204201910003.jpgClip: Use of Racial Terms in 19th Century ...
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