The Adirondack History Museum is set to celebrate Independence Day with a program on the American Revolution in the Champlain Valley. From the capture of Fort Ticonderoga to the end of the war with ...

Sanctuary' Cities Only Protect Child Predators, Other Heinous Criminals The author George Orwell ("Animal Farm," "1984") once ...

Animal Farm, by the famous George Orwell, offers powerful quotes that expose human nature, inequality, and tyranny, making it ...

Best Book Series for Tweens Last updated: June 28, 2025 by Common Sense Media One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a ...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...

Writers are known for their words, but sometimes they’d rather not sign their real name to them. Many famous authors took on ...

The push to sanitize school collections erases what literature is for: knowledge, discovery, the freedom to think ...

Shake & Stir's excellent production of 1984, George Orwell’s powerful warning of what happens when we lose our souls to the ...

When gays and trans people want to ally with those who hang “infidels,” history laughs at them with tears in its eyes.

Gary Shteyngart's 'Vera, or Faith,' and a painstakingly researched history of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of ...

Books That Feature Characters Living with Mental Illness Last updated: June 25, 2025 by Common Sense Media Not the taboo subject it once was, mental illness offers rich territory to explore in books ...

His destiny might already be mapped out, but Prince George has a few important things to do before he gets there.