In the weeks leading up to Hispanic Heritage Month, Latina mom and teacher Frances Evans carefully researches and gathers her materials together to teach her students about the culture. Last year, she ...

It’s a road map to famous people. Wondering if anyone from your hometown ever amounted to anything? Not to fear. A geographer has designed an interactive map of the most notable people around the ...

Do you rescue crabs from tide pools and return them to the sea? If so, you have something in common with the great environmentalist Rachel Carson. Do you easily remember melodies and lyrics, even ...

Why do only famous people have biographies? This is the question that two young sisters,7-year-old Aishvarya, and 11-year-old Vaishali, asked their parents. They were reading biographies in school and ...

In a world filled with fast information, social media highlights, and motivational quotes, few things offer genuine inspiration like reading about real people’s lives. The importance of reading ...

Books — often riddled with gross grammatical and factual errors — are appearing for sale online soon after the death of well-known people. By Elizabeth A. Harris After Joseph Lelyveld, a former ...