As the legendary singer celebrates her 80th birthday, her free book program continues to change lives for millions of kids ...

Two Kenyan women - Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka - set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild neglected libraries in Nairobi.What began as a small community project ...

Here are five local-approved must-visit places in Boston that won't break the bank, covering everything from American history ...

The Brown Bag Book Club at the library, which had been going since the late 1980s, was about to come to an end last fall.

Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, 38 Eldridge Road. Learn about posture, breath, how to hold awareness, and what to do as thoughts arise. This guided meditation will move participants into silence, ...

Adam Cohen, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, photographed in his lab at Harvard University in the Mallinckrodt Chemistry Laboratory. Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer ...

Former Harvard president Larry Summers will not finish out the semester in his instructor role, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed, as the university investigates emails from Jeffrey Epstein released ...

ABSTRACT: Aristotle’s Rhetoric presents a number of internal inconsistencies, many of which stem from its nature as a compilation of lecture notes developed over several decades. As a result, the ...

A s America prepares for the 250th anniversary of its declaration of independence from Britain, there is a pitched battle over what the American story is, and who gets to tell it. Jill Lepore is at ...

Harvard has finally acknowledged that it has a problem with grade inflation. Unfortunately, though the university has now admitted that its instructors award too many A’s, its proposed solutions fall ...

Harvard students are in an uproar after the school's Office of Undergraduate Education released a report last week saying the Ivy League school is "failing to perform the key functions of grading," ...