Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...

No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...

America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...

Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...

“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...

Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...

Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...

Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...

Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...

It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...