Melvil Dewey had an obsession with the number 10. He slept 10 hours, wrote 10-page letters and created the Dewey Decimal System...
In 1972, undergraduates at the Yale Daily News published The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, an entertaining but blatantly sexist description of...
If Frederick Tuckerman had been born a woman, you might think he was Emily Dickinson’s twin. Like Emily, Frederick Tuckerman came from...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America’s oldest and most prestigious honor...
Mabel Loomis Todd is best known for editing and publishing the poems of Emily Dickinson, but she also knew a lot about...