\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…

Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical…

\nThe Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism’s and Christianity’s sacred books. Why these…

Fronto (c. 100 176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of…

\nGeorge Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…

\nPaolo Giovio\'s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…

After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last…

\nLeon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

\nToday John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic…

\nAlexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…