Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, ...

Since 2023, the SMU Center for Presidential History each year selects a distinguished first book on U.S. presidential history ...

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.

Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

For millennia, brutal acts of mass violence against enemy soldiers and civilians were commonplace. Here the editors consider 11 troubling case studies of such extreme violence by English and British ...

Like Hwang’s previous novels, this book is a tender, spooky portrait of outcast friends and lovers. In the first story, d and ...

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

A woman has published a memoir featuring heartfelt letters between her grandparents, written in World War Two, which showed ...

The man who built Two Temple Place faked his own death for a bit of peace and quiet, reports India Block ...