Build empathy by reading personal narrative examples in children's books, including picture books and middle grade books. In ...

Discover how your life story shapes your identity and future. Learn to craft a narrative that fosters growth and resilience.

This fall, Saranac Lake High School 10th graders in Eric Bennett’s English classes were challenged to write personal narratives in just 100 words. In about the space of a paragraph, students were ...

Storytelling is a universal phenomenon and core human instinct, serving as a fundamental way to interpret the world, forge identity, teach values, foster resilience and inspire social change. Across ...

The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799 ...

A quarter century ago, I stood beside John F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington. On a bright summer morning, I found myself before the grave of George Washington. At the Lincoln Memorial I thought back on ...

At 7 p.m. Thursday, the Bennington Free Library will host a Vermont Humanities Snapshot Series event, "What Does it Mean to ...

Personal narratives of genocide and intractable war can provide valuable insights around notions of collective identity, perceptions of the 'enemy,' intergenerational coping with massive social trauma ...