The verdict of literary historians and academic critics upon the fiction writers of the years between 1883 and 1909--the period when Francis Marion Crawford was writing novels--has long since been rendered in favor of William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, an...
Summer 1846. Socialism and republicanism, liberty and freedom from repression were stirring up Paris and Rome, Poland and Hungary. The same feelings churned inside Margaret Fuller, an outspoken, well-educated American "spinster" of 36. Fuller, a prominent journalist and feminist, left Boston in the...
VATICAN CITY - Silently, one-by-one, they filed down the narrow winding stairs. A retired junior high school teacher, a lawyer, a public relations consultant, five priests, three nuns, two teenagers, and a young father toting his 2-year-old on his back - some 50...
Can't they all get along? Not by a long shot.Now some of history's toughest characters are mixing it up on the History Channel for "Barbarians Week," a return to the dark forces of tribal expansion as they tear away at the established civilizations of their...
