It seems every Lincoln biography is intrinsically linked to the Civil War.  Not so, with Jon Meacham's intimate portrait of our 16th ...

As the elected president off Moldova -- one of Europe's poorest countries -- Maia Sandu often uses part of her day to rebut online...

After its surprising but effective military incursion into Russia in August, Ukraine has shown why it is not really seeking territorial...

Driving down Chestnut Street in Philadelphia's "Old Town", you'd never guess that this cobbelstone street once had been the center of...

There’s a freedom to the music of Bela Bartok, a willingness to cut loose from the moorings of Brahms, Mozart, and even Beethoven, to let...

A friend of mine, once walked into a tire store, and said he needed a set of new tires for his Lincoln Continental.  And then told the...

It took 37 years, but Aretha Franklin's miraculous performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, in 1972, was...

When Barbra Streisand was twelve-years old, she underwent a dramatic and remarkable change: her ears popped, and suddenly she could hear...

Monday-Tuesday (May 18-19) -- I met my older brother John at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and together we boarded a direct flight to...

by Alexander Kronemer THE next-to-last Congress of the 20th century was gaveled into session earlier this month. Had this been two...

What do you get when an ex-Beatle travels to Nashville and sits in with the finest group of Country musicians this side of the...

Throughout history rivers have been the lifeline of civilization.  In "Rivers of Power" author and geophysicist Laurence Smith shows how...

Book Review: "The Promised Land" by Barak Obama Reading "The Promised Land" by Barak Obamana is tantamount to taking a semester of...

The miracle of "The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions", is that they happened at all.  The surprise of these sessions is that the music is...

I have read several books about the Civil War, but "Vicksburg" by Donald L. Miller, is the absolute best.  In fact, if you want to...

Had the Marx Brothers been a Rock-n-Roll band, they would have been The Who, the edgy, mischievous British Blues-Rock band that in the...

While their names may not roll off the tongue with the familiarity of John, Paul, George and Ringo--the Fab Four Beatles--in their day...

The Three Wise Men of yore were, of course, the Three Wise Men from the east who came to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the new-born Jesus. ...

THEY WERE THE ODD COUPLE of the American Revolution: John Adams, short, stout, emotional, impatient, vain, highly opinionated, and...

It wasn't as melodramatic as the family-feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, in "Romeo and Juliet", and Modena certainly couldn't...