'Galileo Goes to Jail' and other myths about science and religion

Profiles of four women who struggled to find their place in the church and American society

The story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller is evidence that perseverance can bring miracles.

The story of an extraordinary encounter at the height of the Fifth Crusade

In early April 1980 the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe met the Harlem-raised James Baldwin ldquo for the first and sadly last time rdquo at the annual meeting of the African Literature Association held that year in Gainesville Fla Both men happened to arrive to the conference a day late pus

Landislas Orsy performs a careful dance with the Vatican in "Receiving the Council."