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Larry Tye discusses his book Superman, the first full-fledged biography of not only the fictional Man of...

After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lin...

For nearly a half-century, Eric Mann has worked on anti-war, labor, and environmental causes. He looks at how race, labor, and imm...

Rachel Cantor helps local readers escape the winter blahs with a discussion of her debut novel, A Highly Unlikely Scenari...

The U.S. government is disintegrating … and that’s a good thing, according to National Review contributor Kevin Williamson...

Best-selling urban fiction author ReShonda Tate Billingsley discusses and reads from her new novel (written with Victoria Christop...

Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper...

Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...

Some countries are so good at educating children that virtually all their youngsters can make complex arguments and solve complex problems. In othe...

The 1964 murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese has become a defining moment in American social history. Early reporting described h...