The Portuguese introduced Carnival to Brazil in the 17th century with the ... became the central focus of Carnival in the early 20th century. In 1928, the first samba school, Deixa Falar, was ...

That is the kind of dust kicked up by “Stranger Than Fiction,” a rattling heritage railway train of history ... this book, inspired by what the music critic Alex Ross did for 20th-century ...

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This week, non-fiction triumphed with books looking at the literature of the 20th century, the history of British propaganda and a delightful compendium of words for rain well reviewed in the ...

In his new book, Bradford DeLong ... to chop modern history into a long 19th century, stretching from the French revolution to the crisis of 1914, and a short 20th, ending with the fall of communism.