Sense of loss of family acute in the letters of Irish emigrants during the Famine, but there was hope, too, in the New World.

But in Heaven, no aching head, no weary heart. There, no palsied arm, no brow plowed with the furrows of old age. There, the ...

I’m all for hardball (Lord knows congressional Republicans could use a tutorial). But using a palsied infant as leverage isn’t playing hardball. It’s something else entirely.

The town has been praised as ‘divine’ and has ‘amazing’ views (Picture: ) Planning a fancy getaway to an exotic country is ...

We can imagine the radiant countenance of this venerable man, so august in his poverty and isolation, as he held this letter in his palsied hand and slowly gathered its contents. Dr. Priestley ...

Leader of the victorious Continental Army, first U.S. president and presiding spirit in the drawing up of his new nation’s constitution, Virginia-born George Washington was a hero and role model ...

Sometimes he could scarcely project his palsied voice past his lips. Sometimes, uncontrollably, it filled the whole room with its blurting bass boom. What gave him great dignity was the complete ...