Feb 04 Winter Forecast: Art to Blanket Region By Tom LeGro When it comes to photography, a Wilson Bentley image can be described much like his favorite subject, the snowflake: Each is one of a kind. After all, the Vermont farmer was the first to ever photograph one. Continue reading
Feb 03 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Using Drama to Understand and Heal the Wounds of War A dramatic performance project called "Theater of War" uses ancient Greek tragedies for a very special goal: To link ancient and modern warriors in an understanding of war's pain and mental agony. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch Away from Battle, Soldiers Find Relief in ‘Theater of War’ At military bases around the nation, performances of Greek drama are linking ancient and modern warriors in an understanding of war's pain and mental agony. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Feb 02 Haiti Puts Brakes on New Adoptions By Talea Miller Updated 6:30pm ET In the wake of the arrest of ten American missionaries in Haiti detained on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of the country -- the missionaries say they were going to set up… Continue reading
Feb 02 Military Explores Dismantling of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ By Quinn Bowman Top U.S. military officials on Tuesday echoed President Obama's call for a repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, telling a Senate panel that they were preparing for an eventual undoing of the rule that prohibits gays from serving… Continue reading
Feb 02 Portraits of the Face of War By Tom LeGro In her surprisingly tender portraits of former soldiers and marines, photographer Nina Berman documents the lives of veterans who have made an extraordinary sacrifice for their country, and who now must make a new start in the face of serious… Continue reading
Feb 01 Weekly Poem: ‘Centuries of Ashes’ By Tom LeGro Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Continue reading