A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine. A Reuters witness ...

Despite being the most spoken language in Pakistan, Punjabi lacks official status, while Urdu and English dominate the legal ...

This gorgeous staging of Brian Friel’s play has a cast that pulls you fully into the struggles their characters are going ...

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

In doing so, the administration cited a 19th century lawsuit that denied U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. The case is called Elk v. Wilkins. The president’s executive order has been blocked ...

What fun it is to study American politics these days! We go back to the first five years of the Nineteenth Century, with the impeachments of John Pickering, Samuel Chase, and the case of Marbury v.

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to come ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

The course gives an overview of American literature in the nineteenth century with major emphasis on the American Renaissance, realism, naturalism, and the local color movement. The syllabus consists ...