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." ...

An Iowa author is hosting a book drive called Pages of Power during February celebrating black history and culture. The idea of the collection of books is to start conversations. Everything collected ...

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.

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

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

For more than half a century, Purple Mountain Press (PMP) has been a cornerstone of regional publishing in New York State, ...

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

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 ...