William Mullen

Bands of armed men in southern Iraq are descending daily on the ruins of history's first cities, smashing and wrecking valuable archeological material to get at artifacts for an illegal...

It is well-known that civilization, the rule of law, government, the written word, literature and basic mathematic principles were invented by ancient Mesopotamian cultures in the land that is now...

Early last week librarian Mary Newman was delighted to see the swirling mass of painted lady butterflies on a country road in McHenry County. Unfortunately for the butterflies, she was...

About 10 years ago I was sitting in Lincoln Park Zoo's old Great Ape House watching Debbie, the zoo's incomparable gorilla foster mother, patiently doing nothing while a very ill-behaved...

Befitting the quiet, methodical approach of gardeners, two suburban museums are in the midst of changes designed to raise their public profiles to the level of world-class museums and research...

When visitors to the Field Museum look into the somber, careworn face of Egyptian Pharaoh Sesostris III this spring and summer, they will see a work of art that is...

Because it is 68 miles west of Schenectady, 240 miles northwest of New York City, and even harder to get to for the rest of the world, the National Baseball...

Whenever he is in Chicago, South Dakota businessman Peter Larson finds time to go stare from afar upon the love of his life, a putative female who left him in...

Almost as soon as John Clark arrived at Pleasant Hill Plantation after a long journey by horseback, the young North Carolina slave was in love. On loan from his owner...

Art museums have been asked to return works stolen by Nazis from wealthy Jews. Native Americans have demanded the return of human remains and sacred objects taken without permission from...