Grantian Florilegium

On this day in 1901, English author, journalist, artist, and wit G.K. Chesterton dashed out the first draft of a rather obscure short story ...

Corrie ten Boom, her sister Betsy, and her father were betrayed into the hands of the Nazis on this day in 1944. They had been attempting t...

Cyril, who with his brother Methodius was the pioneer missionary to the Slavs and architect of the Cyrilic alphabet, died while still servin...

Valentine was a third century pastor who was imprisoned for his faith. According to tradition, he wrote small pastoral notes to members of ...

Cotton Mather was born on this day in 1663. He lapsed into a coma and died exactly 65 years later in 1728. He was the scion of a rich heri...

When the first section of the Erie Canal opened in 1825, it was a marvel of engineering and human labor. Cut through the rolling hills and ...

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
 Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers,
 And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
 A po...

Come when the rains
 Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
 While the slant sun of February pours
 Into the bowers a flood of...