For decades, students desperate for a summary of Crime and Punishment or a thematic analysis of motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved looked no further than the yellow and black guides available at ...

You know you've done it. Some kids will break down and do it in just a few weeks. It happen during an academic emergency. Such as when, with only a few hours of summer vacation left, you need to ...

At this time of year, students are buying textbooks and looking for ways to avoid reading them. Nothing is new about that. CliffsNotes guides, with their familiar yellow and black covers, have been in ...

For the first time in my 25 years of life, I find myself casting a ballot this year. Aside from the confusing mixture of shame and excitement this brings me, I hope to vote with intent and ...

Catherine MacDonald, co-founder of CliffsNotes, the popular study guides bound in black and yellow, died Sunday, her 94th birthday. MacDonald and her first husband, Cliff Hillegass, launched what was ...