From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...

Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.

Never enough! This week, V and Emily travel back to TWIFH’s oldest historical event thus far: opera singer Jenny Lind’s landmark 1850 tour in the United States and its accompanying “Lindmania...

Extreme temperatures and drought are adding to the stress on oak trees that have lived for hundreds of years and play a key role in the national imagination.

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

Lord Gordon-Gordon was the most famous alias of a nineteenth-century imposter whose specialty was posing as a wealthy Scottish landowner. He did this so well that he succeeded in convincing many peopl...

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Beginning Aug. 1, NPR Music will publish a week-long list of stories and podcast episodes exploring the legacy and future of the Grateful Dead. And we want to hear from you!

In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.In Wildness: Henry David Thore...

An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

New and expanded programming focuses on inclusive teaching and critique practices and building a deeper sense of belonging among RISD faculty members.

Springsteen Fandom: "A Lifetime Conversation" explores the experience of the Bruce Springsteen musical fandom as a mutual exchange between artist and…

To what purpose, April, do you return again? It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

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