Discover why Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver belongs among the giants of transcendentalism and her contributions to ...

Writer and editor Lindsay Whalen is writing the first biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, to be ...

Follow the personal and political journey of conservative writer, strategist, candidate and provocateur William F. Buckley, Jr. See how one of the architects of the modern conservative movement rose ...

To most Americans, he was the eternal Crooner: a much celebrated and beloved performer of unparalleled popularity. Yet Bing Crosby was far more than that: He was an architect of 20th century ...

After World War II, a network of conservative politicians, religious leaders, sympathetic journalists and like-minded organizations in the United States devised a plan. This plan sought to turn back ...

Arthur Miller was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956, as HUAC’s power was waning. He was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to identify people who he had met at ...

When “The Twilight Zone” first premiered on CBS in 1959, audiences were not yet accustomed to cerebral and mature science fiction. Created by Rod Serling, “The Twilight Zone” challenged expectations, ...

It has been nearly a quarter of a century since the death of a minor American actress named Marilyn Monroe. There is no reason for her to be a part of my consciousness as I walk down a midtown New ...

Walter Winchell grew up poor in East Harlem, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He quickly rose from vaudeville hoofer to Broadway blabber by posting gossip about his acting troupe on backstage ...

Madonna—celebrating her 65th birthday with a victory lap of a tour this year—has been an enormous pop icon for so long that it’s sometimes difficult to remember that there was a time before. But that ...

Scooping up a potato pancake, patting chickens, coaxing a reluctant soufflé, or rescuing a curdled sauce, Julia Child was never afraid of making mistakes. “Remember, if you are alone in the kitchen, ...

“You can say anything you want on the trombone,” Ellington said in a 1944 profile in the New Yorker, “but you gotta be careful with words.” Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D ...