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CORRECTION APPENDEDIn the memory of every schoolchild who has been marched through the American Museum of Natural History in New York in the last 75 years -- among a few [...]

Colin Eglin, a South African politician who was at the forefront of his country's white, liberal opposition to apartheid and who then helped draft the Constitution that ended it in [...]

Paul Mayer, a Jewish-born former Roman Catholic priest who was at the forefront of peace and social justice campaigns for five decades, for a time working closely with the radical [...]

While on a book tour of the United States in the 1990s, Andro Linklater, a Scottish journalist and popular historian, peered from his plane at the vast checkerboard orderliness of [...]

When James Rensenbrink started an alternative newspaper in 1969, its mission -- speaking truth to power, debunking corporate journalism, promoting rock 'n' roll, publishing sex tips and drug advice that [...]

While on a book tour of the United States in the 1990s, Andro Linklater, a Scottish journalist and popular historian, peered from his plane at the vast checkerboard orderliness of [...]

When James Rensenbrink started an alternative newspaper in 1969, its mission -- speaking truth to power, debunking corporate journalism, promoting rock 'n' roll, publishing sex tips and drug advice that [...]

Paul Mayer, a Jewish-born former Roman Catholic priest who was at the forefront of peace and social justice campaigns for five decades, for a time working closely with the radical [...]

Tony Musante, a rugged-looking American actor who was seen on television, in films and on stage in the United States and Europe for over 50 years but who was probably [...]

Tony Musante, a rugged-looking American actor who was seen on television, in films and on stage in the United States and Europe for over 50 years but who was probably [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe Rev. T. J. Jemison, a civil rights pioneer who organized a 1953 bus boycott in Baton Rouge, La., that foreshadowed the one set off by Rosa Parks in [...]

The Rev. T. J. Jemison, a civil rights pioneer who organized a 1953 bus boycott in Baton Rouge, La., that foreshadowed the one set off by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJoseph P. Franklin, a white supremacist who killed at least eight people in a shooting spree from 1977 to 1980 and confessed to being the sniper who wounded the [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Suzanne M. Bianchi, a social scientist who explored the changing landscape of late-20th-century American families, tracing how divorce, the shrinking gender gap and women's careers affected children, [...]

Suzanne M. Bianchi, a social scientist who explored the changing landscape of late-20th-century American families, tracing how divorce, the shrinking gender gap and women's careers affected children, parents and their [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Saul Kagan, who for decades led the organization primarily responsible for securing more than $70 billion in restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs, died on Nov. [...]

Saul Kagan, a former refugee who for decades led the Jewish service organization that was primarily responsible for securing more than $70 billion in restitution for Holocaust survivors and their [...]

William Pollack, a medical researcher who helped develop a vaccine that virtually eradicated a disease once responsible for 10,000 infant deaths a year in the United States, died on Nov. [...]

Dr. Michael Palmer, a physician who began writing tightly plotted thrillers at his kitchen table in 1978 to escape the inner chaos of alcohol and drug addiction, in the process [...]

Chris Chase, an actress, journalist, memoirist and co-author of autobiographical books about Rosalind Russell, Josephine Baker and Betty Ford, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. The cause was [...]

Chris Chase, an actress, journalist, memoirist and co-author of autobiographical books about Rosalind Russell, Josephine Baker and Betty Ford, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. The cause was [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Augusto Odone, an Italian economist with no medical training who flouted scientific protocol and doctors' advice to help concoct an experimental medicine that extended the life of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen the Army charged the Green Beret commander, Col. Robert Rheault, and six of his officers with murder and conspiracy on July 21, 1969, in the secret execution of [...]

Augusto Odone, an Italian economist with no medical training who flouted scientific protocol and doctors' advice to help concoct an experimental medicine that extended the life of his terminally ill [...]

Augusto Odone, an Italian economist with no medical training who flouted scientific protocol and doctors' advice to help concoct an experimental medicine that extended the life of his terminally ill [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWilliam F. Niehous, an American businessman from Ohio, had been given up for dead by almost everyone but his family when he emerged from the Venezuelan jungle on June [...]

Mark Brandon Read, a notorious Australian criminal and self-described ''murdering maggot'' who spun tales from his violent history into a successful comedy routine and 10 top-selling books, including one illustrated [...]

The Rev. Chuck Smith, a Southern California minister who shepherded flower children and rock 'n' roll into the conservative wing of the evangelical movement while building a religious organization that [...]

Robert C. Stebbins, who was considered by many to be the pre-eminent authority on the lungless salamander, the barking tree frog, the northern Pacific rattlesnake and hundreds of other amphibians [...]

Robert C. Stebbins, who was considered by many to be the pre-eminent authority on the lungless salamander, the barking tree frog, the northern Pacific rattlesnake and hundreds of other amphibians [...]

The Rev. Sidney Lanier first tried to revive his dwindling congregation on the fringe of Manhattan's Theater District by summoning actors to the pulpit to read stirring passages from the [...]

Robert Barnard, an award-winning British crime writer known for skewering hypocrites, snobs and prigs in his cast of characters as energetically as he dispatched murder victims, died on Sept. 19 [...]

Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a high-ranking Cuban economist and diplomat who became a vocal critic of Fidel Castro in the 1990s but chose to remain in Cuba, despite enduring harassment and [...]

Marta Heflin, an actress who appeared in New York stage musicals like ''Fiddler on the Roof,'' ''Hair'' and ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' in the 1960s and '70s, and later in a [...]

Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a high-ranking Cuban economist and diplomat who became a vocal critic of Fidel Castro in the 1990s but chose to remain in Cuba, despite enduring harassment and [...]

When Dr. John H. Kennell was a hospital pediatrician in the 1950s, newborns were typically whisked away within minutes of delivery, washed, weighed, blood-tested and plunked into bassinets under the [...]

Sheldon Hackney, an educator and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities who organized a series of ''national conversations'' aimed at restoring civility and civic-mindedness during the culturally fractious [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLansing Lamont, a journalist who was credited with writing the first popular account of the building and testing of the atomic bombs used in the attacks on Hiroshima and [...]

Robert F. Capon, an Episcopal priest, author, theologian and food writer best known for ''The Supper of the Lamb,'' a sui generis book about cooking and metaphysics that has remained [...]

Jack Beal, whose pensive nudes, densely detailed still lifes and earnest public murals depicting ancient myths and modern life helped define the New Realism of the 1960s and '70s, a [...]

Dr. William Glasser, a psychiatrist who published more than two dozen books promoting his view that mental health is mostly a matter of personal choice, a precept that found a [...]

Dr. William Glasser, a psychiatrist who published more than two dozen books promoting his view that mental health is mostly a matter of personal choice, a precept that found a [...]

Anthony Pawson, a Canadian cell biologist whose pathbreaking insights about how cells communicate with one another resolved one of science's oldest mysteries and helped spur the development of a class [...]

Anthony Pawson, a Canadian cell biologist whose pathbreaking insights about how cells communicate with one another resolved one of science's oldest mysteries and helped spur the development of a class [...]

The English folk singer known for most of his life as Louis Killen was a bawdy, bearded pioneer of the 1950s British folk revival, a member of the Clancy Brothers [...]

The English folk singer known for most of his life as Louis Killen was a bawdy, bearded pioneer of the 1950s British folk revival, a member of the Clancy Brothers [...]

Ted Post, a prolific director who collaborated with Clint Eastwood on two hit films, directed hundreds of episodes of television series like ''Gunsmoke,'' ''Peyton Place'' and ''Rawhide,'' and made a [...]

Penelope Casas, a Greek-American writer from Queens who was an authority on the foods of Spain, and helped introduce Americans in the 1980s to a continental Spanish cuisine distinctly different [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJoseph M. McLaughlin, a former federal judge in New York and dean of the Fordham University Law School, died on Thursday in a Queens nursing home. He was 80. [...]

Jean Bethke Elshtain, a philosopher of politics and religion whose erudite writings on good and evil, war and peace, and the moral imperative of American global military engagement made her [...]