Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...

Young Pennsylvania German women used show towels to display their handiness with a needle in order to entice prospective ...

Britain’s first black woman bishop tells her story for the first time in a new memoir.

Trieste is a harbor city tucked into the northeastern corner of Italy, where hilly streets drop to piazzas along the Adriatic ...

I write this as Israel’s genocidal practices seem unstoppable, with no ceasefire in Gaza or Jenin. I am trying to fathom the ...

Chopin's legacy allows us to delve not only into the musician's life but also into that of 19th century Europe. This digital ...

English Aristocrat Sir Philip Sidney wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Poesy.” In this text, he defends the value of ...

From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...