This past weekend, we were treated to two full days off from school, with no classes, meetings, office hours, or obligations. We all have Columbus Day to thank for that little fall break that we have each...

The document that emerged from the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 has become the longest-lived national constitution in the world, fulfilling Chief Justice John Marshall’s vision that it was “meant...

Many people know very little about Jewish Holidays, except that maybe they got the day off from school when these holidays came around. But like any other holiday, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipper are two...

The first Monday of September always gets the honor of holding the last holiday of the summer, a holiday dedicated to celebrating the American worker.  Labor Day is a holiday that pays tribute to the...

In your hand you are holding the official newspaper of the University of New Haven, the Charger Bulletin. But do you really know anything about the history of the newspaper in general? The history of newspapers...

Cinco de Mayo, of the fifth of May, commemorated the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the French-Mexican War. In the United States, it has taken on significance...

The month of April marks the anniversary of the sinking of the  Titanic, the British luxury passenger liner that sank on Apr. 14, 1912. Ninety-eight years ago, the ship took its maiden voyage from Southampton,...

This Thursday, Apr. 22, is official called Earth Day. Thirty-five years before Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth made global warming a household term and the green mainstream, some twenty million people...

The origins of baseball have been the subject of debate for more than a century. The sport, as well as the modern bat, ball and running games, and cricket and rounders were developed from earlier folk...

Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is Christianity’s most important holiday. Technically, it is a movable feast because it does not fall on one particular date each year as most...

Every year, Apr. 1 is the day all comedians and pranksters wait for. It is April Fools’ Day, a day where you play jokes on all of your friends and get joked on in return. But who started this day and...

Now that March is fully underway we can look forward to what March is known for other than St. Patrick’s Day. Growing out of a small-town school event in California, Women’s History Month is a celebration...

Attention all forensic science students, this week’s “Did You Know” column is especially for you. Feb. 22-27, 2010 marked the days of the conference of the American Academy of Forensic Science’s...

The Chinese calendar is different from the normal calendar used today. Like the Jewish and Islamic calendars, it is a lunar calendar and is divided into twelve months of either twenty-nine or thirty days....

With the month of February fully underway, people around the United States honor African Americans and look at all of the impacts that they have had to our nation’s history, especially in the areas of...