Around the world this week, Scots gathered in their tartans, heard the squeal of a bagpipe and dug into a serving of haggis ...

Burns wrote 'The Rights of Women' for Miss Louisa Fontenelle, a London actress who is known to have performed in both Edinburgh and Dumfries. Burns was apparently very taken with Miss Fontenelle ...

Throughout, the tone is tender and caring, and the poem celebrates the life of the child, while condemning the life-denying disapproval of members of the kirk who, Burns said, would 'ca' me ...

The outstanding private collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen – a bountiful selection of some of the best Wave Crest and French cameo pieces available, plus other fine items.

“If I had my way,” said Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina at ... are available at the Ken Burns in the Classroom site. These materials include clips from the film as well as other ...

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday.