When a lecturer appeared at the dawn of the 20th century to tell Arkansans about a new religious movement from New England, Gov. Daniel Webster Jones showed up, eager to hear all about it. The speaker ...
Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...
Internationally renowned novelist and essayist Yiyun Li has become known for writing that probes life’s hardest realities. Li, a recipient of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Thiel is hosting his latest Antichrist lecture in Rome. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Peter Thiel is taking his ...