On Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her new book, “We the People: A History of the U.S.

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As a third lockdown traps millions of British schoolchildren at home, free tablets and televised lessons are being touted as alternative ways to learn in a lockdown.

I needed to get past the acute stages of healing to share my story safely; otherwise, I risked re-traumatizing myself.

In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced ...

Our ability to read and write -- to organize information and engage with the written word in a state of “deep attention” -- ...

W hen America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect ...

In a new weekly series, Ask an Education Reporter, we will tackle your education questions — from early education to colleges ...

A recent investigation into a fatal jail beating began with a tip. When institutions hide their failures, public sources are essential to accountability.

A critic once remarked that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie writes so simply that a cat or a dog can understand her. It was meant as a compliment and taken as such. In her new book she ...

From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore's collection approaches Southern identity from a variety of angles.