Ruth Ann Monti

Kay Redfield Jamison's memoir of living with bipolar disorder came at a time when the efforts to remove the stigma of mental illness was still pretty new. The fact that the author is a clinical...

The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel with allusions to end-of-the-world scenarios envisioned by Biblical prophets, Revelation, and science fiction. The burned-out landscapes more or less mirror the...

According to the website Live Science, Helen Keller almost certainly contracted meningococcal meningitis when she became ill at nineteen months of age. Meningitis is caused by a bacterium that's...

Florida was not one of the original 13 colonies. Although it was under British control at the time of the American Revolution, it had no interest in rebelling. In fact, it did not become a state...