From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Today-History-Dec08

Today in History for Dec. 8: In 1694, a French Jesuit missionary in Canada, Noel Chabanel, was murdered by a renegade Huron. He was one of the group known as the Jesuit Martyrs of North America ...
Inquirer and Mirror

Bilingual children's book uses poetry to portray Nantucket

Enzo Meliendre was not on Nantucket long before his wife, Nantucket native Ingrid Feeney, went into labor with their daughter ...
The New Yorker

Tornado Imagined from Far Away

Some homes almost disappeared, / as if the atoms that had made them were gone.” ...

A legacy of equality: Revisiting the Highlander Folk School and its role in the American civil rights movement

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its ...
The Daily Independent

Of hills and heroines: Raising up a new generation of writers in Kentucky

Six new poets from Appalachia — all girls and young women — arrived at the recent Kentucky Book Festival at Joseph-Beth ...
Zoom TV on MSN

Sidharth Malhotra Describes Dharmendra as a 'Genuine Son of the Soil' in Response to the Icon's Poem 'Ikkis'

Sidharth Malhotra lauded Dharmendra as a “genuine son of the soil” in reaction to the late actor’s touching poem dedicated to ...
Shasta Scout

“My ancestors have not deserted me”: The life and writings of Wintu poet Alfred Gillis

After recent erasures of the historical contributions and experiences of Indigenous people from public sites, the work of an ...