While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art.

Museum staff believe the binding and corners of this book are made using the skin of 19th Century murderer William Corder A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales ... library – tucked in as the binding for an old book. "The manuscript had survived the centuries after being ...

1600 ivory carving from China, likely inspired by the Virgin and Child. State Hermitage Museum ... in the early 16th century and mounted in Naples, c. 1640) and exotic animals.

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, just released in movie theaters nationwide, is only the latest of at least 20 films and TV shows to be made from the book. But if Alice has endured unscathed ...

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