At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

The Educational Bookshop in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem was raided by police on Sunday afternoon, with two members of the family which run the store arrested. A number of books were seized by ...

By A.O. Scott These refreshingly authentic and playful picture books celebrate the many kinds of love that can fill kids’ lives. By Travis Jonker The writer Kelsey McKinney tries to wrestle ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones Untold Stories of American History In 1931, Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Breathing Room” has a highly anticipated new book centered around a ... between the color blue and black history, from the indigo-dyed cloths of West ...

and he brings that textbook vignette style to a new animated Netflix original for the whole family. Based on his trilogy of children’s books of the same name, That Christmas follows several ...

In his latest book, Cass R. Sunstein lays out what the ... terrifying novel ‘The Lamb’ is a modern fairy tale about family and growing up. Be prepared to be shocked. In “The Uncanny Muse ...