At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

My kids have talked a lot about pay, work and value. Though it would be nice to determine our worth, when we are working for ...

Door. n.s. [ dor, dure, Saxon, dorris, Erse.] The gate of a house, that which opens to yield entrance. Door is used of houses and gates of cities, or publick buildings, except in the licence of poetry ...

On Tuesday, the young contestants will have to spell a word and answer a vocabulary question to advance to the next round.

In Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen practices calligraphy, writing Vietnam's modern script—a legacy of French rule.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin By John Perry “An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a ...

Jacob Martonito, the first statewide winner from Appleton, hopes to make it at least as far as the semifinals at the National Spelling Bee.

A fifth grader from Lee's Summit is one of 243 competitors in this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. She's been studying ...

Shashi Tharoor’s command of the English language is legendary, often leaving people—and sometimes even ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee begins May 27 with the preliminaries. This year’s competition is all the buzz as the Spelling Bee is celebrating its 100-year anniversary.

Two students from Los Angeles County and one from Orange County will begin competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Tuesday in National Harbor, Maryland. Kamya Balaji, Oliver Halkett and Sydney ...