About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore? Quite a bit, it ...

The American Civil War did not end well ... Some of them from publishers who specialize in nothing but Civil War books. Even now, any discussion of what caused the Civil War will trigger dreary ...

“Go Tell It on the Mountain” is a coming-of-age novel and classic book by eloquent American activist and author James Baldwin ...

America’s chief humanitarian official rose to fame by speaking out against atrocities. Now she’s trapped by one.

This theater was already on display in the 1936 Olympic games, when all the “Juden unerwüscht” signs disappeared, and Nazi ...

Instead, we ignored history and, as a result, among so many other horrific things, left our weaponry—explosives, small arms, ...

Kara Walker, one of America's most preeminent artists, takes us to another moment in history when viewpoints were perilously ...

An innovative, wide-ranging, thought-provoking account of class struggle in the US since the Civil War, Jon Jeter’s latest ...

It is not antisemitic to defend Palestinian human rights. And it’s past time for more American Jews to say so to correct a ...

The curriculum includes century-old books of U.S. history combined into an edited volume for Highlands Latin School ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis,” underscores the parallels between the past and the present ...