Wedding season is upon us. Are you getting ready to walk down the aisle in a few weeks? Are you newly engaged? Or are you thinking of taking the marital plunge with that wonderful man in your life?

Before you say "I Do" here's some timeless wisdom from two...

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Women's History Month, the television documentary Makers: Women Who Make America provided a valuable retrospective on the second wave of feminism.

Seven years after Friedan's book appeared, many American women remained ambivalent...

Achoo! Is it a cold, the creeping crud or the flu? If the last of these, you're among the thousands who've fallen victim to the influenza epidemic ravaging the nation this winter. At this writing, the Centers for Disease Control reports that 47 states have reported widespread cases...

Friday, December 21st marks the winter solstice, a time when the North Pole tilts furthest away from the sun at 23.5 degrees, producing the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. In the United States the sun will shine for less than ten hours on Friday: in New York City nine...

What would Thanksgiving be without a traditional turkey dinner? The holiday is so closely associated with that native American bird that some vegetarians celebrate our national holiday with a tofurky, made from organic tofu and wheat protein.

The wild turkey ( meleagris gallopavo) is a unique North American species, a...

For generations, we have delighted in the wicked antics of the green-faced, long-nosed Halloween witch who flies upon her broom past a bat-filled moon on October 31. Halloween wouldn't be the same without her. The Halloween witch is a beloved symbol of the season, a darling of the dark side,...

At a moment when cultural trend-watchers are predicting the imminent demise of the traditional book in lieu of digitization, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is honoring the strength of print as it celebrates its 200th anniversary. Founded in October 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts by patriotic printer Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) to...

Five hundred and twenty years ago this weekend, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic and discovered -- or, more accurately, "rediscovered" -- North America, a feat achieved several centuries earlier by Vikings and prehistorically by Siberian tribes crossing the land bridge to what is now Canada.

Many Americans may not...

It happens every summer, reports of shark sightings off the shores of Cape Cod. This year, as in past summers, local authorities closed beaches in the towns of Chatham, Wellfleet and Truro. To some tourists, who looked forward to vacationing on the beaches of Cape Cod, this was...

It's July and suddenly you are more popular than you ever dreamed -- blessed with an abundance of off-Cape friends and relatives who've arrived for a visit. Some you wanted to invite, planning their arrival carefully in consideration of your schedule and theirs. Others wheedled their way to your door...

It's July and suddenly you are more popular than you ever dreamed -- blessed with an abundance of off-Cape friends and relatives who've arrived for a visit. Some you wanted to invite, planning their arrival carefully in consideration of your schedule and theirs. Others wheedled their way to your door...

Without written records, the histories of past generations are quickly forgotten. As the author of "Herstories" - a biographical series of history's remarkable but often forgotten women who helped shape America -- I have long been intrigued with the neglected lives and emotions of those who lived before us.