Grantian Florilegium

Memorial Day is a holiday observed every year on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates the men and women...

Despite volcanic ash clouds to dodge, airport closures to navigate, flight delays to bear up under, the petty tyrannies of airport security ...

Though London was for more than a century the most populous city on earth, it was also always a collection of villages. Each village used to...

In a speech to the House of Commons on this day in 1940, Winston Churchill declared, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, a...

The American Bible Society was founded in New York on this day in 1816. Elias Boudinot, a former President of the United States under the A...

I love it when my students go on to do great things, creative things, adventurous things--when they start families, build businesses, pursue...

Very little is known about the life and career of Gillaime Shakspar--later dubiously presumed to be the playwright, William Shakespeare. Ap...