Born on July 21. 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was the second-oldest of six siblings. His mother was a local musician who taught him to play the cello while his father brought him out to the family’s ...

By 1917, the meaninglessness of the sacrifice had become clear enough to the combatants, if not to civilians back home: ...

Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day.