Be mine. Yours forever. You hold the key to my heart. True Love. Hamilton College Classics Professor Barbara Gold can't help but notice the difference between modern Valentine's Day cards filled with sentimental sayings and ancient Romans' wrenching expressions of love.
Indiana University Bloomington faculty members are available to comment on initiatives that President Bush is expected to discuss in Wednesday's State of the Union Address.
A group of West Virginia University students won't just experience mountains and moments when they spend 11 days in the Minnesota wilderness this spring. If Greg Corio has his way, they'll come back to campus with a declared college major, too.
Rowan University political science professor and presidential scholar Dr. Larry Butler believes the president's February 2 "State of the Union" will further Bush's efforts to gain support for his plan to reform Social Security.
This weekend's elections in Iraq might lend some legitimacy to the new government but won't likely end the daily violence plaguing the war-torn country, a West Virginia University political scientist says.
The second presidential term tends to be more difficult, but the Bush administration appears to be attempting to head off potential problems, according to University of Arkansas political scientist and presidential specialist Andrew Dowdle.
Davis McCombs, an assistant professor of creative writing, has been awarded the Editors' Prize by The Missouri Review for his portrayal of a disappearing way of life in a series of poems written with the support of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Four faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Tulsa have won prestigious national awards this year to study religion, publicity and privacy, race and modernism.
Some obsessive-compulsive behavior appears to be motivated in large part by disgust, according to 10 researchers from different parts of the nation. They also determined that common measurements of disgust must be re-evaluated before psychologists can proceed with their research.
"A Patriot's History of the United States" covers U.S. history through the 2004 handover of power in Iraq and is meant to serve as an antidote to what the author says are liberal-leaning history textbooks.
The Snell Shillingford Women's Coaching Symposium, to be held at Ursinus College Jan. 21-23, is a grassroots way of addressing a lingering problem: the shortage of female coaches despite the increases in opportunities for women in athletics since the advent of Title IX.
A new suit to remove the "under God" phrase in the pledge of allegiance was filed this week. URI student Nathaniel Nelson writes that the phrase should be retained.
Trey Graham, theater critic at the Washington City Paper, is the winner of the 2003-04 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, is administered by the Cornell University Department of English and is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater.
An English professor is taking a new look at Geoffrey Chaucer's often-neglected short poems, and suggests the writer intentionally broke some of the rules he is so well known for following.
For 10 years, University of Arkansas students and professors have been digging up pieces of the past and changing the way archeologists view life in the Middle East during the first millennium. Now the U of A and Yarmouk University in Jordan have published the results of their initial years of excavation and study.
If you're looking for last minute holiday gifts, and books are high on the list, here are some answers to What makes a good read? A group of writing faculty at Williams College weigh in with their lists of good reads to will help you put Merry Christmas in the bag.
T.J. Gibson found two 16-inch "records" in her mother's attic closet. The labels read Hartforld Music Quartet. Her journey took her to MTSU's Center for Popular Music, where the radio transcription disks were cleaned--and she heard her brother's voice--it was her father, J.A. McClung.
A tipsheet from Creighton's Political Science and International Relations experts on what they see as the events to watch in 2005.
Gifts that help promote the good health of a loved one say a lot about how much you care. The December issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource offers gift ideas that are fun, practical and promote wellness and healthy living.
By today's standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day's work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night or learning to read and write may seem to be pretty tame infractions. But for slaves in the American south such activities were dangerous, daring and far more common than previously believed.
The Latin epic that influenced a Japanese film classic and a Hollywood Western now has a more modern voice, thanks to a Purdue University English professor. The "Thebiad also provides an apt analogue to the famous Japanese film "The Seven Samurai" and the Hollywood film that imitated it, the 1960s Western "Magnificent Seven."
Maryland Journalism Lecturer Sue Kopen Katcef talks about the free Journalist's Guide To Maryland's Legal System.
Colgate University's Anthony Aveni traces the history, customs, and politics of Thanksgiving.
Canadian Government awards $1.4 million Research Chair to Trinity Western University. Professor Peter Flint, PhD, author, and official editor of the Isaiah Dead Sea Scroll and 24 more, was granted the Chair to further his Scrolls research at the University.
When Random House offered up the literary target of a lifetime two years ago, a veritable mob of accomplished authors took aim. The publishing giant would ultimately choose one lucky writer to pen the sequel to "The Godfather," Mario Puzo's legendary 1969 novel.
The American film industry has been sensationalizing Canada since celluloid was invented. After all, without a little dressing up, the country's kind of boring. The trouble is many people learn history and geography by watching movies, and there are ramifications for Canada.
A grand public opening of the Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College will take place on Saturday, November 6. The opening of the Center is a major "bricks and mortar" development in college construction in two important areas.
Holiday giving to friends and family is both easier and more rewarding when gifts chosen give many ways "“ something the recipient can enjoy, yet something that also supports an important cause.
1) Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?" Joanne Pepper, PhD, discusses artistic portrayals of Jesus in other cultures. 2) "I'm dreaming of a commercial Christmas." Todd Erickson, available to speak on the topic of Christmas and marketing.
An extensive collection of American holiday prints from the mid to late 19th century, the collection of Hamilton College religious studies professor Jay Williams, will be on display at the Kirkland Art Center from November 17 to December 5.
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Dale Carpenter will premiere his latest film this Sunday at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. "City of Visitors" traces the colorful, often tumultuous history of the city of Hot Springs.
A Salem College professor says the recent collapse of Zimbabwe's economy can be blamed primarily on the government's suspension of property rights - not on drought conditions, as the IMF and others claim.
Hans Broedel, a medieval historian, says that Halloween is rooted in Celtic tradition, and in that culture many ghosts were friendly, coming back in the form of animals, including crows and cats. "Ghosts in the form of people, such as those we see in movies, are more common today than in the middle ages," Broedel says.
The Michigan State University College of Law American Indian Law Program will hold its inaugural indigenous law conference, "Tribal Constitutional Issues in the Self-determination Era," Friday, Oct. 29.
It will be snowing art in November and December when original works"” decorated snowflakes"” by some of the best-known award-winning children's book illustrators will be auctioned online in a charity event, Robert's Snow: for Cancer's Cure.
Scheduled to hit bookstores in time for Veterans Day, the latest book by military historian Dr. John C. McManus examines the Normandy invasion from the American perspective.
Purdue today celebrated the completion of a fund-raising campaign for Phase II of the new $41 million Visual and Performing Arts Building, thanks to an anonymous donor and university alumni, including Patti and Rusty Rueff.
It was America's first interstate highway, and here's a hint: It isn't Route 66. It's the National Road, and a group of historical preservationists at West Virginia University are helping to restore the distinct mile markers that line the 750-mile roadway.
Democracy, patriotism, family...these are words spoken with fervor these days, but what do they really mean? Shock and Awe: War on Words, explores the political meaning of words through essays, photographs, poems, and drawings by nearly 80 scholars, artists, and poets from UC Santa Cruz and around the world.
Not many writers are willing to get tackled regularly for their art, but St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser Jr. is. He's written a new book about his experiences playing for the nation's oldest semi-pro football team.
Moravian College has received a $147,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to hold a five-week NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers in partnership with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem on the cultural background and connections of the music of J.S. Bach.
Temple University creative writing students will have an opportunity to not only meet, but learn from, their idol Jonathan Lethem when he comes to campus from Oct. 4"“8 to ingest, evaluate and inform their works as the program's visiting writer for the fall semester.
Hans Broedel, a medieval historian, says that Halloween is rooted in Celtic tradition, and in that culture many ghosts were friendly, coming back in the form of animals, including crows and cats.
Andrea Barrett, winner of the National Book Award and author of five novels and two story collections, most recently "Servants of the Map" has been appointed lecturer in English at Williams College.
Maryland Distinguished University Professor Ira Berlin says slavery is at the center of the history of the United States. "If we are to understand our history," he says, "We must understand slavery."
In a race against time, the largely untold story of the nation's first African-American Marines will at last be made known through a broadcast quality video documentary currently underway. More than 20,000 trained in segregated facilities between 1942-49 at Montford Point, N.C. and were the first to integrate the U.S. Marine Corps.
Many women are choosing to marry for the first time after age 30. In a new collection of essays, women who have done so muse on their motives and their outcomes. And their experiences are overwhelmingly positive.
University of Arkansas researcher Sandra Sherman serves up tastes of the past and reveals 18th century British sentiment toward the French in her most recent book, "Fresh from the Past: Recipes and Revelations from Moll Flanders' Kitchen," due out in October.
The Florida State University School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts will be recognized by the Directors Guild of America for its distinguished contribution to American culture through film and television.
Teenage refugees from some of the world's worst hotspots will present their own writing and photographs at a month-long exhibition.
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