Stenberg, longtime director of the Library Research Service at Encyclopedia Britannica, died Feb. 17 ... Katharine Hepburn’s portrayal of a research director in the movie Desk Set. Always unassuming, ...

Children of US presidents are in the public eye almost as much as their parents. Some have followed their parents into ...

Eighty years after a pivotal battle of the Second World War, few of those who fought there are alive to describe what it was ...

Pastry purveyors around the country are celebrating a favorite American treat on Friday, resurfacing an age-old spelling kerfuffle. Is it "doughnut" or "donut"? Many dictionaries take the middle path, ...

After all the years of planning that went into the D-Day invasion, which happened on June 6, 1944, some things still went ...

In 1956, Ballard was hired as the Set Designer and Technical ... Ballard also co-write the book Directing the Puppet Theatre (1989) with friend and colleague Carol Fijan. He wrote the puppetry entry ...

From the iconic Britannica to the World Book Encyclopedia, these hefty tomes provided a sense of authority and reliability that was unmatched by other sources. While the rise of the internet and ...