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G20 gives India an excellent opportunity to become a global player in world politics and resolve world conflicts SUDHIR HINDWAN The G-20 Presidency of India is a huge Platform to showcase its multidimensional role and inner prowess across the globe. There have been a lot of conceptual and scholastic discussions about India’s leading role,

If we link the history of slavery to the labor movement, we can better understand the true interconnectedness of all Americans in the process.

May is here and this is the month which precedes the great trifecta months of June, July and August. May is a welcoming month to the heat of summer and

The first colonial governor of Massachusetts planted a pear tree in the 1600s. It’s now believed to be the oldest cultivated fruit tree in the Americas.

In “Woman: The American History of an Idea,” Lillian Faderman argues that as American women emerged from the home, forces conspired to push them back.

NEW SALEM — A donation from the Jones Library in Amherst has brought yet another piece of the lost towns of the Quabbin Reservoir to the Swift River Valley Historical Society Museum. The communion table from the Enfield Congregational Church was...

Writer Jane Turpin Moore steps outside her comfort zone to try watercolor painting.

A donation from the Jones Library in Amherst has brought yet another piece of the lost towns of the Quabbin to the Swift River Historical Society Museum. The communion table from the Enfield Congregational Church was delivered to the museum by the...

The art director of this year’s London Design Biennale, Es Devlin, intends to challenge archaic design principles and highlight current climate concerns by planting 400 trees in the heart of the capital. Somerset House was built in line with the principles of the Enlightenment, an intellectual and philosophical movement in 17th and 18th century Europe. At the centre of this was a synthesis of scientific discovery and reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their...

1 of 6 (Jared Charney / The Salem, Mass., News) Michael Updike stands outside the Beverly Farms Library, in Beverly, Massachusetts, where his fathers name is on the buildings facade. Jared Charney (Jared Charney / The Salem, Mass., News) Michael Updike and his wife, Olga, present several items belonging to John Updike to Beverly Farms branch librarian Dorothea Lam. Jared Charney (Jared Charney / The Salem, Mass., News) A picture of the late author John Upd...