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Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

This year marks the quincentenary of the publication of First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of Ferdinand ...

Raleigh-based Republican consultant Carter Wrenn has had a front-row seat to decades of political history. He worked for the ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The ...

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In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

The craftsman makes sturdy ladder-back chairs through green woodworking, a technique that carves out furniture from a log. Its seats are finely woven, and the two horizontal bars that connect the two ...