"Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth." Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He was the third of four children in a family ...

Thanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed. It peeks through in reply to two obvious questions: Thanksgiving to whom for what? In search of an answer ...

The need for chronic reassurance is stoked by repeated attempts to gain it, so letting go, rather than controlling, tends to ...

Prophetstown” on view at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site through Dec. 1, challenges the idealized American version of ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

Shutterstock Welcome to Two Days Away, our series featuring weekend-long itineraries within a five-hour drive of your city — ...

Emmy Rossum, Zoe Winters, and Motell Foster star in Amy Berryman’s play, WALDEN, directed by Whitney White, opening ...

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads,” wrote Henry David Thoreau more than a century and a half ago in the journals that became Walden. How much would it have shocked the philosopher to ...

(NEXSTAR) – David Harris, the actor who played Cochise in the cult film “The Warriors,” died Friday at the age of 75, his daughter Davina Harris said. Davina Harris, speaking with The New ...

NEW YORK — Attorney Jim Walden, who has worked on cases in and around city politics for decades, is running for mayor and is pitching himself as an apolitical technocrat who will emulate Michael ...

“Laughter,” David Henry Hwang says, “is potentially a binding force in the theater. It allows us to relax around each other and feel more comfortable in the context of issues that sometimes ...