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The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that...

The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...

Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedl...

Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—...

Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen...

Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los...

Is True Grit’s Mattie Ross a genuine feminist hero or a merely a woman who mimics traditional masculinity? Panelists Brenda...

Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...