Every now and then, I read a book which hits me with such a profound impact that, like Paul on the road to Damascus, I find ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers, has died. He was 92.

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The University of Kansas and its home of Lawrence were hotbeds of LGBTQ+ activism in the 1970s, boasting the Lawrence Gay ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

The staff from the Aspen bookstore recommends a memoir on motherhood, a book on mushroom capitalism and newly translated ruminations on Rome.

Schools for military families must pull several lessons tied to immigration, gender and sexuality from their curriculum.

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Trump kicked off a global press conference by presenting Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba with a copy of his coffee table picture book.

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...