The complete online text of A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was one of the most popular and highly regarded British writers of the end of the 19th century. He played a significant part in the revival of the novel of romance. During Rober...

At the time of his death in Samoa in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson was regarded by many critics and a large reading public as the most important writer in the English-speaking world. "Surely another age will wonder over this curiosity of letters," wrote S...

A combination of artistic ambitions, a thirst for adventure and discovery, courtship of and eventual marriage to an American, and above all poor health turned Robert Louis Stevenson into a life-long wanderer. His early travel writing demonstrates his kee...

Tomorrow is Mother's Day - a day to celebrate those who not only brought us into the world but who so often have sacrificed much for us. Motherhood - as warm and fuzzy as it sounds - is not always an easy path....

The only case in which the U.S. Supreme Court has referred to the "neutral reportage" privilege was in 1989's HarteHanks Communications Inc. v. Connaughton, which involved a judicial candidate who sued a newspaper for publishing an accusation by a grand jury witness that he...