In the book, Lowery discovers that a KKK member will be coming to speak in his hometown and becomes fearful of a confrontation. Throughout the novel, Lowery will be told the story of Henry Berry Lowry ...

Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry ...

Broadcaster Heywood Hale "Woodie" Broun, unmistakable in his colorful sports coats, droopy moustache and jaunty hats, was a ...

Kostya Kennedy’s "The Ride" explores the true story of Paul Revere and the forgotten riders who helped ignite the American ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

Adam Sandler said goodbye to Morris, the famous alligator in “Happy Gilmore,” who retired in Colorado and died of old age over the weekend.

In a new book, Benoît Gallot explains what it takes to run Père-Lachaise, where he lives with his wife, children and, he insists, no ghosts.

The prolific Charles Dickens had an imagination fired by the “marvelousness of everything.” ...

WASHINGTON — Morris, the American alligator movie star best known for his role in "Happy Gilmore," died Sunday, an exotic animal sanctuary announced.

WASHINGTON — Morris, the American alligator movie star best known for his role in "Happy Gilmore," died Sunday, an exotic ...

Tom Cruise is the biggest Hollywood movie star in the world bar none, the M:I franchise has beaten its primetime namesake’s ...

This overwhelming victory of the Red Army over the Nazis would not have existed, of course, without the 1917 Revolution. So say the characters in the ...