It’s also familiar, as readers of “On Air,” Steve Oney’s engrossing and entertaining new history of NPR, will discover. The book opens in 1983, when profligate spending by a visionary but ...

But when MacGregor learned that students rarely checked out or were assigned the tiny assortment of women’s history books available in local elementary schools, she took action by joining the ...

Book reviews: ‘Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ and ‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ Feature The dirty global trash trade and Robert Frost’s poetic life ...

Spring is just around the corner. As the days get longer, you’ll want to spend those extra hours of sunlight with a good book. This month’s must-reads include astronaut and activist Amanda ...

“I promise you it’s the kind of book you won't want to put down,” Oprah says. For the first time in Book Club history, Oprah picked the same book twice. Originally selected for the club in 2008, A New ...

Ross and published by Vanderbilt University Press, is the winner of the 2024 Tennessee History Book Award. The award was announced by the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tennessee ...

Books make people better." Here are banned books by Black authors across genres to celebrate Black History Month all year-round. Walker, now 81, spoke about attempts to censor "The Color Purple ...

One of those historians is Benjamin Heber Johnson, a professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago. He grew up in Houston and just released a new book entitled “Texas: An American History.” He ...

With “Theft,” he continues to turn over the history of his home country, Tanzania, with the awe of a geologist examining a rare, flawed and inimitable specimen. Karim, returned home after ...