The Ancient Greek historian Plutarch is known for his incisive essays in Moralia, a collection that reads like a modern-day ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Universities are facing a rising tide of digital ghostwriting as stressed international students turn to online models to ...

Terri Ochiagha is a deeply perceptive literary scholar who has an exceptional talent for explicatory prose. Her voice is clear and lucid. Unquestionably, her body of work so far is immensely ...

Ochiagha explains why she is writing the first full-length biography of Chinua Achebe, through years of archival research ...

Two men who were instrumental in the writing and ratification of the U.S. Constitution differed on how the document allocated ...

Spread the love“`html Introduction For decades, the idea of learning styles has captured the fascination of educators, psychologists, and parents alike. The notion that individuals have distinct ...

He had been working on the personal statement for weeks, rewriting the opening paragraph more times than he could count.

Korean won “Writes essays and literary criticism, works at a publishing company. Essays include *The Future of Love*, *A ...

In Apples and Oranges: Adventures in Poetics, Stuart Cooke concedes that his ideas ‘talk to one another, but how they do this isn’t clear. I can’t shake the idea that each of them makes sense only in ...

My thanks to the editors of the Times Free Press for the essay contest, "What is an American?" It provided a meaningful way for area high school students to think about and celebrate our country's ...