The three fragments of papyrus have been hidden away for a hundred years in an Oxford University library. But a…
Yesterday the much ballyhooed Nixon film opened to record crowds across the country. I hope you haven’t wasted your money…
The biggest news for biblical scholars these days is that they can finally study the complete Dead Sea Scrolls. The…
The heroes of history often loom larger than life, and seem far removed from our own experience. But really they…
Last week the president went on national television to explain his decision to send 20,000 U.S. troops to Bosnia as…
The time was just after World War II. Communism had descended like a dark shadow over most of Eastern Europe.…
Russians have been lining up, not for bread or meat, but for art. German art treasures stolen by the Red…
She’s just a barefoot cartoon figure in a buckskin dress. But Pocahontas, Walt Disney’s latest animated heroine, is expected to…
Three young boys—a Protestant, a Catholic, and a Jew—unveiled a bronze plaque on the courthouse wall in Montgomery County, Maryland.…
Imagine a history text in which the Wright brothers have been grounded, Alexander Graham Bell has been disconnected, Thomas Edison…
