When I began work on The Yale Book of Quotations for Yale University Press in 2000, I was certain that I could improve upon the standard quotation dictionaries--Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and The ...

Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman? These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale ...

When John Bartlett published his first book of “familiar quotations,” the Civil War hadn’t yet begun. Since 1855, the project of a bookstore owner has evolved into an American library staple, packed ...

Sally Emerson, author of several novels including Second Sight and Broken Bodies, has recently published In Loving Memory, A Collection for Memorial Services, Funerals and Just Getting By, an ...

A year ago, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful and challenging questions have been rolling in ever since, and we’ve been answering them ...