In a statement, the Historical’s board chair, Agnes Hsu-Tang, said Wilson’s book had also “redefined the concept of a biography,” telling “a more encompassing history about America than ...

If you want to develop a deeper perspective on the present, these five history books are essential reading. 1. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Harari’s Sapiens is a ...

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community. But in “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breath,” Carl Zimmer ...

Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works ... Billed as the perfect book for Jordan Peele fans, “Listen To Your ...

“There is—and has long been—a physical appeal to being blanketed by books,” Evan Friss, author of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, tells me. “The ladder is a symbol of ...

The best history books help us understand who we are and where we are. The past never fully stays in the past; understanding old events gives us perspective on current ones. And right now ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

Detailing ancient policy failures, racy scandals, imperial eccentricity and various levels of gossip, the book reached the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week, and made history as ...

A Minecraft player creates an impressive floating castle design with intricate details. The build gained popularity on Reddit, with praise for its complexity. The builder spent roughly 40 hours on ...

But that doesn’t mean there were no more milestones to be set or records broken. And indeed, history was made that evening: The lead actor and supporting actor Oscars were both won by Black men ...

However, talk of the possibility of making these amendments triggered uproar on social media, with many considering it a denial of history and ... in his book 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman ...