Caregiving can be a positive, transformative experience, for children and parents. Pledge to your local PBS station to support websites like this.

"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." (Martin Luther) Martin Luther found peace when he married an ex-nun named Katharine von Bora ...

It is important to establish parents' legal status and preferences, and also to make your own desires clearly and legally known. Pledge to your local PBS station to support websites like this.

Women typically carry the burden of caregiving. Financial realities and worries are often especially difficult to discuss. Pledge to your local PBS station to support websites like this.

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of ...

Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun and the one that has most intrigued humanity over the years. It was named after the god of war because its reddish soil gives the planet a scarlet hue in the night ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming children ...

What Does Your Speech Reveal? We use language to express our identity. Our way of speaking varies and changes to reflect who we are and who we want to be. Carmen Fought asks the provocative questions: ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...