I don’t know what English teachers teach nowadays, but Sir Gil Kelley and Mrs. Roberta Tomberlin had us read classic American and British literature, like “Moby Dick” and “Ivanhoe,” respectively, ...

Moby-Dick was not a popular book after it was published in the United States on Nov. 15, 1861. Moby-Dick has since earned ...

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When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into ...

A 1912 photo of Brokaw Eden Washing Machine Co. captures its early Alton operations before relocating to New Jersey in 1922.

Every new generation is forced to fabricate the exceptional and the unfamiliar for itself, through wars and big, militaristic ...

In 1970, a chartered Southern Airways DC-9 carrying 37 Marshall University football players, as well as the team’s coach, doctors, athletic director and 25 team boosters, crashed outside an airport ...

The now-beloved book, which centers on a sailor seeking revenge against a sperm whale, was initially met with lukewarm sales, ...