How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

While created from beautiful ideals (government by, for, and of the people, for example), the founding principles of the ...

As a single mother of three “living paycheck to paycheck” in California, Janet Blaser had become resigned to constantly ...

Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of ...

Most people would call it a "field mouse," but a scientist would ask, "Was it Peromyscus maniculatus? Or Peromyscus leucopus?

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...

Peoria Christian hurdler brought home gold at the IHSA boys state track meet, while Delavan, Princeton and Bureau Valley ...

What was ideal was heavy rain that happened the night before, the kind of inclement weather that tends to encourage migrating ...

Holshouser turned to accordion when a college pal gave him one as a gift. Martin Johnson reviews his latest album, then Terry Gross hosts Holshouser in the studio for conversation and some music.

Hittite writing wasn’t unlocked until 1915, when a linguist in Prague named Bedřich Hrozný realized that the unearthed tablets were written in an Indo-European language—the earliest known ...