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Poet Threa Almontaser won the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award for her collection The Wild Fo...

Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....

In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman...

Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...

Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl...

Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat...

Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...

Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?  Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...

What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday, w...