Throughout history, Black Americans have been resilient and adaptive, and have always found ways to celebrate their culture. In this book, Johnson calls attention to the sometimes-unnoticed ...

Tremont and West streets in downtown Boston, circa 1895. (Transit Department photograph collection/City of Boston Archives) Boston is known for its great concentrations of history and higher education ...

Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding in July 2026, the nation must confront a stark reality: Americans are more polarized than they’ve been in decades. Among the key ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of the global evolution of books themselves. In the five multiple-choice ...

A true titan of world letters returns to the page this week. Granted, it's not as if Isabel Allende ever really left. The prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s, continues to publish as quickly as ...

Understanding the past "gives us perspective" on current events, said GQ. "And right now, we sorely need perspective." With "war raging in Europe" and Donald Trump causing chaos across the pond, it's ...

Fifteen years ago, New Jersey-founded punk rock outfit The Gaslight Anthem released its sophomore effort and ultimate masterwork The ‘59 Sound: an intensely intimate homage to vintage Americana and ...

Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke remarked how he "can only imagine the history books" that will be written about the people of 2025, and likened it to 1933 Germany on Wednesday. The Democrat appeared ...

Fond du Lac Public Library has published "Life by the Lake: Stories of Fond du Lac," a new local history book. The book builds upon Cindy Barden's earlier work, "Foot of the Lake," and was written by ...

In “Frontier Comrades,” Jim Wilke recounts the stories of Westerners who were gay, lesbian, bisexual and transvestites.

For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...