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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin’s book is, in its way, an attempt to “salvage damage from history.” When he tries to interview his mother, she is unwilling to discuss her childhood. “Her eyes narrowed ...

(Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Paul McCartney ‘s next book, coming out this fall, is a reminder that the Beatles were not his only band. “Wings: The Story of a Band on the ...

Detailing ancient policy failures, racy scandals, imperial eccentricity and various levels of gossip, the book reached the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week, and made history as ...

I thought I knew a lot about Black history, and I came across all these women-owned businesses in "The Green Book." And there were things called tourist tomes, which were kind of like — not ...