Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...

Professor Rebecca E. Karl explains why she voted in favor of the American Historical Association’s resolution.

I had been thrilled to hear that for Christmas this secular Jew could see the Bob Dylan film, "A Complete Unknown" — the best gift I could get. (besides a ...

Louis Schittly, a French physician whose experiences in an African war zone in the late 1960s led him to help start Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, an aid group that received the ...

Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, has died at the age 86, but his cover of an anti-war song, which serves as a poignant reminder of the futility of war, has come full circle back to Ukraine.

Farewell to Peter Yarrow: the Peter of the 1960s trio Peter, Paul and Mary passed away today at his home on the Upper East ...

He wasn’t the kind of man to cry, but I think he would’ve shed a tear when he heard that he was getting his lighter back." ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

What about older Vietnamese who had connections to the “American War,” as they ... The French brought it to Vietnam in the late 19th century and used it until 1960. Inside, two hours grimacing ...

Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, Kashmir, Ukraine, Mali, Russia, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, Israel, and Iraq. Places of war, conflict, insurgencies. Places of tragedy. Places of relentless slaughter of men, most of ...

Carter impressed the legendary Rolling Stone writer with a “king hell bastard of a speech” that foreshadowed his vindication of human rights.

The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working ...