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The new biography of Mark Twain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow covers all aspects of the life of the Hartford ...

A dive into François Bayrou's family history reveals a royalist great-uncle, a Christian Democrat father, a 'Bayrou boarding ...

So I was happy to learn that an eminent historian such as Gyanendra Pandey had decided to seek out the Indian man in his home ...

Growing up in the postwar years, I learned to prize education, civil rights and the rule of law.

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It all began with my fascination with politics since my grade school days. It was inevitable that this would lead me to the study of geopolitics, the study of the influence of factors as geography, ...

If Salman Rushdie’s 'Midnight’s Children' left you craving more magical history and layered storytelling, these 8 books will ...

Books & the Arts / The radical life and work of the historian. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Christopher Hill was one of ...

A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores how nutritional science, technological advances and political debates shaped the ...

Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s “Eminent Jews.” ...

The crisis sparked by the Trump administration's tariff policy has forced the world to consider which industries will be hardest hit by future levies on imports and exports.