Prof Bethwell Allan Ogot was an intellectual force who fiercely advocated for the decolonisation of African history ...

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

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

Verbs are not often used as thematic titles for art festivals, but the one selected for the Sharjah Biennial is elegantly ...

The latest book by local historian Martin Brisland explores Romsey's history, giving readers an insight into its storeyed ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

Before coffee shops and luxury high-rises popped up along D.C.'s U Street, the popular street was once known as "Black ...