In November 1831, black typesetter Francisco de Paula Brito (1809-1861) purchased a bookstore from his mixed-race cousin Silvino José de Almeida, and transformed it into one of the largest publishing ...

In today’s highly competitive job market, the value of a college degree continues to increase. College graduates in the United States earn 71% more than those who only hold a high school degree, so it ...

Fisherville always stood a little in awe of Mrs. Nelson and her intellectuality. Though James Nelson, a Fisherville boy, in the pride of his young Eastern wife, had brought her to them fully fifteen ...

On August 31, 1837, while delivering a lecture titled “The American scholar” at Harvard University, R.W. Emerson said, “Character is higher than intellect.” Whenever I see highly educated people ...

Perhaps famously attributed to and alluded by Joseph Merrick, “The Elephant Man”, the couplets above came to be the epigraph of this unfortunate Victorian personality. Born with severe deformities ...

child’s intellect does descend from their parents, but is it true that it primarily descends from the mother? What about the father? In China, many pondered to find the answer after an article ...