SPRINGFIELD ― Just as iron sharpens iron, competition brings out the best in athletes. No. 12 Renaissance girls basketball brought out its best on Saturday as the Phoenix defeated Taunton Regional, 66 ...

Few families have shaped a city and a civilization quite like the Medicis. Known for being patrons of the arts, they funded many of the most famous Renaissance art pieces and scientific advancements.

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

Science has often been associated with progress and the advancement of humankind. The Renaissance and Enlightenment periods in history saw major advancements in the sciences which changed the course ...