To take in the tumult provoked by the death of Arthur Prince of Wales the first born son of King Henry VII and of his wife Elizabeth of York early in 15th century Tudor England combine the affection currently felt for Prince William with the fear for the future engendered by the death of John K

In 1967 Robert Kennedy went on a fact-finding tour of the Mississippi Delta An eyewitness recalled that he and his party went into one of the worst places I rsquo ve ever seen A dark windowless shack smelling of mildew sickness and urine There was no ceiling hardly the floor had holes in it

Marilynne Robinson rsquo s new collection of essays is entitled When I Was a Child I Read Books Here rsquo s the opening of the title essay When I was a child I read books My reading was indiscriminate I preferred books that were old and thick and hard I made vocabulary lists Surprising as it

Why study the Psalms Henry Wansbrough notes the following Compellingly they were used by Jesus in addressing his Father Martin Luther noted that the entire Bible is contained in the Psalms rdquo The Psalms put our inchoate longings or as St Paul would say groanings into words Wordsworth

American school children are taught to revere the sacrifice made by soldiers in the Continental Army during the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge Most don rsquo t realize that the following winter outside Morristown New Jersey was even worse Here rsquo s a soldier rsquo s description from Th

In April of 1947 the then Princess Elizabeth made a radio broadcast on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday She was abroad at the time visiting South Africa with her parents and sister Her birthday address ended with this pledge spoken in an incredibly young voice a tremulous sound stil