Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the in[...]

To most, Robert E. Lee is a beloved tragic figure of a bygone war--remembered by history as stoic and brave but without a true emotional life. Recently, however, historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor uncovered important documents that provide a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, his beli[...]

Lindy Blanchard has devoted five years of her life to saving the pecan trees on her family's farm--but someone is going to deadly lengths to see that she fails...
Riverville, Texas, is pecan country, and the Blanchard family farm is famous for its acres of tall pecan trees and the delicious pie[...]

Cambridge English for the Media develops the communication skills and specialist English language knowledge of media students and professionals, enabling them to work more confidently and effectively. Covering a range of media-related fields including newspapers, television, radio and marketing, the[...]

Despite the increased attention in the media to women's health, hormone connections are not being routinely evaluated and as a result, critical information is still being missed. Women are suffering needlessly, often being given costly medications that cause side-effects. In this revised and updated[...]

As the popularity of "Marley & Me" attests, people love their dogs?and everyone else's too. For all the time spent on grooming, petting, and other care?it's as if owning a dog is a religion unto itself. Woof brings together original essays from acclaimed writers ruminating on the sometimes tumultuo[...]

Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Gardner's classic also became foundational in the history of American ph[...]