Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English at Wellesley College, had a chestnut-eyed collie named Hamlet and a green parrot named Polonius. She taught Shakespeare, and she wrote poetry. She loved to ...

This woman's shirt is green and blue, probably to symbolize the complicated history of colors associated with St. Patrick. | gpointstudio/iStock via Getty Images On March 17, people (and buildings and ...

If you're wondering what inspired Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl album, she explains it all in the prologue poem. Now, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl is officially out and fans are ...

"The story of Mary Camilla Nurney still awaits an ending." I led a column with those words in 2020. Five years later - 107 years after Mary Nurney's death - her story finally has a worthy coda. In ...

This is part of our daily newsletter series. Want this in your inbox? Subscribe here. Florida began with free orange juice at the welcome station on the Flora-Bama border. It blossomed in Key West, ...