Alan Prince
Content by Alan Prince
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"If the sex abuse scandal had never occurred, the Catholic Church in the United States would still face a crisis," says religion writer Peter Steinfels.
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<B>A gifted scholar's farewell</B> When Stephen Jay Gould was five years old, his father took him to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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<B>A landmark for women's rights</B> For Lois Jenson, the outcome of the 24-year legal battle recounted in <B>Class Action</B> was bittersweet.
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One week into his job as an errand boy at The New York Times in 1944, Arthur Gelb got his first taste of big-time newspapering when the Allies invaded France on D-Day.
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The salt industry proudly boasts that its product has some 14,000 uses in hundreds of industries.
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Author Willard Sterne Randall didn't plan it this way, but his Alexander Hamilton: A Life comes at a time when a group of political devotees is hoping that Congress will remove Hamilton's port
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On the first Saturday in May, sports fans look toward Churchill Downs, where last year the fantasy of a lowly longshot beating the odds turned into reality.
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On the first Saturday in May, sports fans look toward Churchill Downs, where last year the fantasy of a lowly longshot beating the odds turned into reality.
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<B>A son reclaims his father's dream</B> Before he died, Dennis Covington's father, who never earned more than $14,000 in a year, told him: "To my knowledge, no Covington has ever
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In a passage in Moby Dick, Herman Melville offered this counsel to other authors: "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." Rick Atkinson emphatically does both
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By tragic default, the Empire State Building has regained its rank as the tallest building in New York City.
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The people of two continents were ecstatic in 1858 when Queen Victoria sent President Buchanan the first official message via a cable under the Atlantic Ocean.
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David Brinkley once said TV journalists simply find out what's happening and tell what they've seen.
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College professors sometimes wish for the impossible: an opportunity to re-convene class to correct or amend lectures they delivered years ago.
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<B>Foucault's scientific triumph</B> Charged with heresy, the 70-year-old Galileo knelt in front of church officials, said the Earth was fixed and immobile and apologized for writing ot
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Biophysicist Luca Turin was born with an incredible sense of smell. He can identify the ingredients of thousands of scents right down to their individual molecules.
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Robb White shortchanges himself with the title of his new memoir, How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt. The book is so much more than its name entails.
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We are horrified when a crocodile snatches and devours a baby or a dog.
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The worst event in the history of Bedford, Virginia, occurred 4,000 miles away.
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Before approaching In the Little World, readers should understand that "midget" is considered an offensive word, and that "dwarfs" and "little people" are the g
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Chuck Pfarrer feels no remorse for the men he has killed. "There are some people who need to go to hell and stay there," he writes.
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In a competition held in 1401, Lorenzo Ghiberti defeated Filippo Brunelleschi in winning the contract to sculpt a pair of bronze doors for the baptistery of the cathedral of Florence, Italy.
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You'd think that life-long friendships would bond a group of coal miners rescued after more than a week of being buried alive, but it didn't work out that way for the 18 Nova Scotians whose story Mel
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ust as every school child in America knows who Columbus was, anyone in China with an elementary education knows the name Hsuan Tsang.
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o Escobar became the godfather of international cocaine trafficking by offering a choice to anybody standing in his way: plata o plomo (silver or lead).
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75 years after his death, Harry Houdini remains unsurpassed in the history of magic as an escape artist.
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The Associated Press, which prides itself on speedy reporting, appalled the civilized world on September 29, 1999, when it broke a half-century-old story. The news report claimed that U.S.
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In the 1990s, most Americans had never heard of Bosnia, didn't know a Croat from a Serb and couldn't locate Yugoslavia on a map, even though Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing a euphemism for
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When their sons and husbands leave home to sneak into the United States, Mexican women ask the underlying question in Crossing Over: Will they arrive or will they die?
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There's a small group of people who measure time in tenths and hundredths of seconds; they are the heroes of The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
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At least 23 of the 118 sailors who died aboard the Kursk survived the internal explosions that sent the nuclear submarine to the bottom of Arctic waters in August 2000.
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Harry Houdini exposed seances because he felt they gave false hope to grieving survivors, so when that great magician visited the town of Lily Dale in the 1920s, some of the mediums there reportedly
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Todd Balf continues to excel in writing about man's battle against the unknown and unforeseen forces of nature.
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"People see alligators in the park and think everything is good. That's ridiculous," a naturalist tells travel journalist W. Hodding Carter.
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His pupils at the London school adored him and said he "knows everything." Adolescent hyperbole notwithstanding, Dr. James Murray was indeed the master of many subjects.
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Today, as on all other days in Louisiana's bayou country, 50 acres of land will become water. In 10 months, a land area the size of Manhattan will be a part of the Gulf of Mexico.
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On September 9, 2001, two suicidal Arabs posing as journalists murdered Ahmed Shah Massoud, the brilliant strategist of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
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Last summer's plight of nine Pennsylvania crewmen trapped 240 feet underground reminded the nation that coal mining still exists.
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When he was preparing to preside at the burial of the remains of Tsar Nicholas Romanov II and his family in St.
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Speakers at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington were told to limit their remarks to five minutes, but no one moved to cut off 34-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. when he talked for 16 minutes.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and England's Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a few disagreements about fighting the Axis powers during World War II.
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Professors used to teach that the human mind could never fully understand the human mind, because, as postulated, one cannot define an unknown by means of an unknown.
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Its owner was correct when he said the 10-story Asch Building in downtown Manhattan was fireproof. The problem was that its contents were not.
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When Gretchen Rubin decided to write about Winston Churchill, she found that some 650 biographies of Britain's wartime leader had already been published.
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