Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

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Jones's book Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern ...

Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads. Gould, the author of well-received books on Otis Redding and the Beatles, chronicles in meticulous ...

Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads By: Ann Levin, The Associated Press Posted: 8:27 AM CDT Monday, Jun. 16, 2025. ...

Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads. The Associated Press. June 16, 2025, 9:27 AM. Share This: share on facebook; ...

Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould has published a ...