New Orleans photographer Michael P. Smith, whose work chronicled the city’s cultural, musical and folk traditions for more than four decades, including 34 Jazz & Heritage Festivals, died Friday. He was 71.

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. – Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce the speakers scheduled to take the lecture platform this season. The Morning Lecture Series is held each weekday morning at 10:45 in the Amphitheater.

Charles Taylor, a 76-year-old McGill professor and one of the co-chairmen of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission, has won the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The prize, which is often referred to as the "Japanese Nobel", consists of a gold medal and 50 m

Education For All Children (EFAC), a New Hampshire nonprofit providing high school and university scholarships to underprivileged students in developing countries, launched its student-to-student high-school service program on June 26 at the annual New...

Hunter College professor Mary Flanagan will serve as the first-ever endowed chair of the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities, the College's dean-of-the-faculty office announced this month. Flanagan will officially arrive o