It’s hard to know where to start when exploring works by famous African-American authors. That’s why we’re spotlighting some ...

Only a master storyteller like Erik Larson could turn the five tumultuous months leading up to the Civil War into "The Demon ... Larson, a New York Times bestselling author whose previous works ...

Nominees are kept secret for 50 years, but nominators often publicize their picks. Academics at the Free University Amsterdam ...

Each month, a wealth of interesting new books hit the shelves, and we pick out some standout novels, nonfiction, YA, children’s and more to put them on your reading radar. Widowed novelist Bock writes ...

The article highlights five of the most outstanding and revolutionary service rifles ever used by the United States military.

War or Peace? This question has become the main, and most importantly, cheapest, most speculative and choicest of slogans of ...

Students heard from author and researcher Gretchen Sorin at the PLEX in southwest Reading on Monday. Sorin wrote, "Driving While Black, African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights," which ...

Patti Epler is the Ideas Editor at Civil Beat. She was Editor and General Manager of the news organization from 2012 to 2024. Patti has been a reporter and editor since 1976. She began her career ...

and requested its service be reestablished in the country A former Memphis police officer who has pleaded guilty to violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights testified in tears Tuesday, saying that ...

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Madeleine Valera is a general assignment reporter for Civil Beat. Madeleine previously lived in Miami and worked as a reporter for McClatchy where she covered a variety of stories ranging from ...

READING, Pa. – Alvernia University students learned about the extent of racism in the South during Jim Crow era and how it connects to today.