The 'Canadian Pacific', a 1940s steam train that took soldiers and supplies to England's south coast during World War Two, ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck this ...

The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah offers themes of family, hardship and war. It won the GoodReads Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction for 2015 and has sold close to 5 million copies. If you enjoyed ...

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and an eminent exponent of romantic ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

Vicksburg was incorporated in 1825, and for 200 years it has been shaped and molded by all who have lived here. And while ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Hear, Hear A street-side ear cleaner attends to a kulfiwala at Dadar Chowpatty—the better to hear you with when you call out ...

Douglas Follett, Glacier National Park’s oldest and longest-serving park ranger, died on Sunday, March 2. He was 98 years old ...

Elsa lives in a remote seaside village; Nightingale, her new friend, lives in a city hundreds of miles away with her father, ...