NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...

Remembering The Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi”, by Joe Bateman and Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, (The University of Georgia Press: Athens), 280 pages, ...

Excerpted from a new photography book, Picturing Black History, these unearthed archival images you will see Josephine Baker, ...

If an entity is going to try to restrict access to a title or a book, we are going to try to figure out how to make sure ...

Beacon Press, founded in 1854, will celebrate its 175th anniversary with a Beacon Classics collection of 60 backlist titles.

Large language models are changing higher education. These authors show that that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

Books written or discovered by UTEP Professor Maceo C. Dailey Jr. offer a way to learn more about Black history in the Borderland ...

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was not being insubordinate or disrespectful when he was caught by television ...

If you love movies or comics, you’ve likely followed the adventures of Spider-Man, Iron Man and other superheroes.

The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with ...

A screenshot showing the NeXT world wide web browser created by Tim Berners-Lee (Image: CERN) The WWW design allowed easy access to existing information and an early web page linked to information ...

Though not strictly a “history” book, Stick and Rudder was first published during World War II and remains a relevant foundational read for flight students and veteran pilots alike looking to ...