I didn’t mean to watch this entire thing, but dammit if I didn’t sit through all ten minutes (alright, technically 11 minutes and 20 seconds) of this fantastically witty, animated history of the ...

When my son Micah was 8, he and I listened repeatedly to “Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America,” a classic 1961 send-up of American history. One sketch imagines Thomas Jefferson going ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...