Deerfield students are having a positive impact in the local community through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Current students can learn about volunteering for

After being at the helm of the Pope Francis and Cathedral high school baseball program for 12 years, Pat Moriarty has accepted the head coach position at Deerfield

Tenth-grader Andari Deswandhy’s vision has become a reality: The Indonesian folk tales she painstakingly translated into English last summer, thanks in part to a grant

An apparently ordinary rabbit’s hole in a farmer’s field leads to an underground sanctuary said to have been used by devotees of a medieval religious

The world’s third-largest asset manager installed a bronze statue of a defiant girl in front of Wall Street’s iconic charging bull statue on Tuesday morning

Henry Morgenthau III, Deerfield Class of 1935, has had an extraordinarily full life. He’s produced award-winning television documentaries, raised children, written a memoir — and yes, his father was the Henry Morgenthau Jr. who was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Treasury Secretary. Now, at age 100, he’s promoting his first book of poetry, called A Sunday in Purgatory. He told NPR’s Scott Simon that he started writing poetry first because he wanted to establish his own identity, not simply to be a member of a distinguished family. “At the same time, I wanted to recall some of the events that I was privileged to observe … like my poem ‘A Terrific Headache,’ which has to do with my father having dinner with Roosevelt the night before he died.”

On April 30, 1789, George Washington placed his hand upon a Bible and took the oath as the first President of the United States. The

In A Poem for Peter, Andrea Davis Pinkney introduces young readers to Ezra Jack Keats, the author and illustrator behind The Snowy Day. The story begins with Keats’ parents fleeing Warsaw, seeking a better life in the United States. It is illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson.