"Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America." Brad Newsham was only 22 when he scribbled this note in his journal with "only an immature sense of the
"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that
I've got some things to say to you, and I have questions to ask, for I am an Applachian daughter; And I want to know where and when America decided it could bear to sentence segments of our populati
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America?and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-Am
Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed "Rapture,&am
Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed "Rapture,&am
Coleridge's status as a philosopher has often been questioned. 'I am a poor poet in England,' he admitted, 'but in America, I am a great philosopher.' J. S. Mill's assertion that 'the time is yet far
Pitch perfectFrom Funny Girl to A Star Is Born, the meteoric rise of Barbra StreisandIn 1970 Barbra Streisand published a story in Life magazine titled “Who Am I Anyway?” It was the very question two
Twenty years ago, Frank Su Huang went abroad for study in America. He hoped that hecould bring Chinese traditional arts and culture to foreigners and learn advanced scienceand technology ideas from Am
I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New Yo
An epic poem on America by a late poet. "And I am only a device of memory / To call forth into this Present the flowering dead and the living / To enter the labyrinth and blaze the trail for the endur
With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps?the last all-white branch of the U.S. military?was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Am
125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing lizard started down the long evolutionary path of shedding its limbs. The 60-plus species of snakes found in Sean P. Graham’s Am
America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England’s King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up Am
America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England’s King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up Am
It was the dream of a euphoric young traveler awed by the crystalline silence of Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush: “Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that Am
Artist, writer, botanist, gardener, naturalist, intrepid wilderness explorer, and self-styled "philosophical pilgrim," William Bartram (1739-1823) was an extraordinary figure in eighteenth-century Am
George R. Noory is the host of America’s top late-night radio talk show, Coast to Coast AM, which is broadcast to more than 500 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada and streamed over the Inter
Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on Am
