The complete online text of Eleanor by Mary Augusta Ward.

Mrs. Humphry Ward, born Mary Augusta Arnold, won worldwide recognition with the publication of Robert Elsmere (1888), which dramatized for countless readers the loss of faith in orthodox Christianity that resulted from the development of evolutionary sci...

the Clinton marriage is from Bill Clinton himself and came two years ago on Fresh Air, in an interview about his book, My Life. Terry Gross is a fabulous interviewer—and also, it must be said, highly sympathetic to the Clintons. In her interview of the...

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience of women political activists Monday that she relied on the wise words of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to help her through tough times on the campaign trail."She said, 'You know, if you're going to be involved in...

A couple whose church supports corporal punishment locked their 8-year-old son in a box, forced him to spend hours in a closet and beat the boy, who died in 2003, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.Josef Smith died at a children's hospital after paramedics were called...

A suburban Atlanta couple was convicted of murder Friday in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the parents' church because it supports corporal punishment.Prosecutors said Joseph and Sonya Smith beat their son Josef, locked him in a...