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President Donald Trump didn’t trigger a backlash against a particular policy; he gave shape to a deeper racial resentment ...

A new era of authoritarianism has dawned in the “land of liberty”. What can US political activists learn from those who ...

In celebration of historian David McCullough’s July 7 birthday, The Reading Trap, our branch library’s book club, embarked on an ambitious literary journey: a “big Book Read” of Truman, McCullough’s ...

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 ...

Romeo and Juliet,” “The Great Gatsby” and other classics still dominate school reading lists.

It is likely to combine many of the worst characteristics of previous presidential memoirs gone wrong.

These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.

Capitalism and greed did not cause the Great Depression of the 1930s. Nor did they cause the Great Recession of 2007–2009.

A new documentary examines the growing movement to bring Bible-based education back to public school students.

The editors of 'America' have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged ...