Language Arts Story Briefs

This broadside, from the 1860s and printed in Boston, was created to persuade people, especially young men, of the dangers of alcoholic beverages. It ...

Having passed through Inferno’s Gate, Dante and Virgil soon see a ship coming toward them.  It is helmed by Phlegyas, a ferryman on the Riv...

It's the Masters! Who planned this beautiful golf course? How did it come about? When Bobby Jones envisioned that Berckmans' Place (near Augusta, Geor...

Misery descended on Ireland during the years of the potato blight. Although only the potato crop failed, famine followed when healthy crops were expor...

How did Charles Dickens, who released his famous Christmas story on 13 December 1843, become such a famous writer?

Mexico's independence began with an event called "The Cry of Dolores" when a priest challenged his parishioners: "Will you free yourselves?"

As Dante and Virgil reach the City of Dis, they see the flaming towers of a city seemingly on fire. Inhabitants of Dis wonder how these two individual...

Scientists have mapped-out the octopus genome! A villain in "Penguins of Madagascar," Dave is an octopus who changes form. A very intelligent inverteb...

In the summer of 451 AD, the Roman general Aetius assembled a military force to resist the advances of Attila the Hun. Theodoric, King of the Visigoth...

As Dante and Virgil make their way through the Inferno, they encounter demons with pitchforks. Although the pitchforks are raised, as if to attack, th...

Understanding Dante's Inferno becomes much-easier when we view illustrations by an artist like Gustave Dore.

Dorothea Lange, a famous American photographer who captured the plight of Depression-era people with her camera, took many still-famous pictures in th...