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Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...

In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...

Valiant knights. Chaste virgins. Bawdy widows. Our notions of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages tend to come from Hollywood and the History Chan...

We’re well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln the country lawyer, the principled statesman, the revered martyr. In a discussion of his new historical nov...

For 15 weeks, from the start of their season through the 2016 Alabama state tournament, the wrestlers at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School endured...

The roots of today’s political fractiousness lie, in part, in a four-day gathering in Houston more than 40 years ago. The National Women’s Conference...

Displaced from their home in Belarus during World War II, a then-teenage Gitla Doppelt and her family joined bands of fo...

Nightly news cameras trained on the flames, the looting, and the chaos that gripped Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015....

This annual screening-and-discussion series continues in February with more psychological studies of films helmed by female directors. Inspired by act...

How much does television—does all of America—miss the kindness and moral compass of Fred Rogers? Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville reminds us with...