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Word Play: Back to the acronym

The revisionist history of backronyms

Plus, a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity laws

Plus: the death of Emperor Nero and Charles Spurgeon’s last sermon

A living history interpreter in Colonial Williamsburg brings a new approach to teaching the history of the milliner’s trade


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Plus: The tomb of the unknown soldier and Finding Nemo at twenty.

Commentator George Grant says some words and their opposites can be "discombobulating"

HISTORY | The head seamstress at an 18th-century millinery shop makes history that visitors can reach out and touch

A historical survey of 150 years of immigration laws in the United States

Plus: the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Plus: The Old Man and the Sea wins a Pulitzer prize and the Unabomber is sentenced to more than four life sentences in prison