On Saturday, March 1, the president signed his latest executive order, naming English as the national language. It marks a ...

In this edition of the Hindu on Books Podcast, we talk to Audrey Truschke about her new book, The Language of History, in which she explains why Sanskrit histories of Indo-Muslim rule ...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their forty-three fellow explorers headed west up the Missouri River, bound for the west coast. As they met a succession of different Native ...

The debate about whether the industrial revolution was a good or a bad thing for the Welsh language will probably last as long as Welsh itself. Modern industry started in the 18th century ...

We explore all periods of the history of the English language, from Old English to the present day, and examine the development and use of varieties of spoken and written English, both globally and ...