Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known alphabetic writing in an ancient Syrian city, suggesting alphabets may be ...

Seeing my father’s handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.” – John Carter Cash By the ...

Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...

Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.