Amazon has just launched a new notification system for non-fiction titles in select markets. It is called “Great on Kindle.” This program has a few compelling aspects; the Kindle books with this ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mortimer J. Adler, a high school dropout who went on to become an educational theorist, a father of the Great Books program and the world's highest paid philosopher, died Thursday at ...

We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

IT is characteristic of our lively American culture at the present time that one of the biggest publishing ventures of recent years — a twomillion-dollar enterprise — should be backed by (1) a senator ...

More than 110 first-year students were waitlisted for the Directed Studies program this fall, according to Katja Lindskog, the program’s director of undergraduate studies. The waitlist for the ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of literary special content. Find related stories here. I was led to the Catholic Church during my undergraduate years, when I was a student in the famed Integrated ...

Directed Studies, Yale’s year-long Great Books program for first-year undergraduates, could expand by as much as 25 percent next year, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview. On ...

The “100 Great Books” had long ago scored a smash hit before the undergrads on the University of Chicago’s Midway ‘TIME, Oct. 24,1938). Last week it was on he road, to play to adults, on a four-city ...

Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás will share his life journey to highlight the continued relevance of the “Great Books” by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Freud and Gandhi and a ...

As New College of Florida announced a new online liberal arts degree program Thursday afternoon, the college included a special guest at the press conference — Joe Ricketts. Ricketts, the billionaire ...