How trains changed the face of the planet.

Two years of love and danger in Tehran

The fate of the sisters of brilliant men has been a sad one.

A journey from the Jesuit seminary to life as poet and husband

'The Crisis of Islamic Civilization,' reviewed

Did Shakespeare create modern culture?

Covering this topic is like writing about the 1936 Berlin Olympics by now the participants are all dead and anyhow none but a handful of stars Jesse Owens Pablo Picasso are known outside the fan base rdquo Like track and field events the doings of painters actors and writers seem rather tri

Professor William Goetzmann has had a long and distinguished career at Yale University and the University of Texas Austin going all the way back to 1966 when he won the Pulitzer Prize for Exploration and Empire The score of books he has written or co-authored have concentrated on the American We

They were nearly all Islanders on the Pequod rdquo Herman Melville famously wrote ldquo Isolatoes too I call such not acknowledging the common continent of men but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own rdquo But whereas Melville rsquo s multicultural whalers were ldquo fed

The largest migration in human history has nothing to do with barbarian tribes the slave trade or Ellis Island It is the movement of 130 million Chinese who starting in the late 1970s have poured out of rural China into the cities No one person could adequately analyze or summarize this tremend