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The editors of 'America' have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged ...
A new documentary examines the growing movement to bring Bible-based education back to public school students.
What does it mean when the narratives we present in our national parks get rewritten, reduced in depth, or erased quietly?
Readers object to an executive order sanitizing troubling aspects of U.S. history. Also: “Dangerously irresponsible” policies ...
Hemingway became famous in the same way one of his characters described going bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly”. Eight ...
Luis is a new fan of the author Mario Vargas Llosa and a longtime listener of the singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler. His other ...
Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...
These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.