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 ...

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 ...

If you have ever heard someone say, “You know, it is actually whom,” then you are well-versed in the wild and wacky world of pseudo-intellectuality. Being smart is difficult. It requires hours of ...

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 ...