A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Pope Benedict’s shocking announcement on Feb. 11, 2013 that he would resign the ministry of the Bishop of Rome reverberates ...

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

Arcimboldo, according to an Italian friend, was always up to something ... says Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, an art history professor at Princeton who is author of Arcimboldo:Visual Jokes, Natural ...

Save the date for Chicago's top fundraisers, exhibitions, galas and performances in 2025. Lesly and David Koo at the 2023 ...

While working at the British Library in London a few years ago, Professor Mahmood Kooria received an unusual ... In the case of Arabic-Tamil, he says, the earliest available text is from the 15th ...

One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought ...

About 200 of the 266 men to hold the title of pope hailed from within the borders of Italy. Here is a look at others, like Pope Francis, who didn't.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

The recent death of Pope Francis I stirred memories for Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek Barbara Weiden Boyd, who recalls ...

“At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of ... Swarat Chaudhuri is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.