While crossing any of the great oceans by steamer, and watching the dance of the waves that lift and swing the vessel, you sometimes become conscious of under movements much larger than those of ...

What does everybody know about The Playboy of the Western World? It caused riots when premiered in the Abbey Theatre on January 26th, 1907, just 110 years ago. And you can hear an audio version of ...

Bat the colonial tide-water area was in close touch with the Old World, and soon lost its Western aspects. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the newer social conditions appeared along the ...

Countries throughout North, South, and Central America and the Caribbean are experimenting with how best to integrate into a globalizing world. In this context, deep divides have emerged ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...