Housekeeping time at the Schuylkill County Historical Society turned up a cache of books that’s delighting Civil War enthusiasts. Felicia Wolf, assistant director, found several dozen books on the ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

The museum’s collection had fortunately been moved to safety Salaheldin Mohamed Ahmed/NCAM Less than a month into Sudan’s civil war, which began ... s historical book,” he says.

For the National Socialists, everything was political. All forms of culture — from theater and cinema to painting and ...

UConn’s Humanities Institute (UCHI) held a Fellow’s Talk in Homer Babbidge Library on Wednesday, March 12. The talk was titled “The Fire This Time: Ronald L. Fair’s ‘Many Thousand Gone,’ a Forgotten ...

John Feinstein, one of the country’s foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, including the ...

The moral anchor to the story — and a fledgling detective — is Ruth Novak, a Red Cross officer from London who sets up a refugee camp in the factory. Ruth is Jewish, from a family of Polish émigrés, ...

The number of books, essays, seminars, conferences and government and foundation grants exploring, and deploring, the ways our screens affect us does not equal the number of American screens. Yet.

John Feinstein, one of the country’s foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, including the groundbreaking “A Season on the Brink” about college basketball ...

Here are book recommendations for stories set in England to read for sheer enjoyment or with an eye toward analyzing them for ...

It’s almost time for the Southern California Museums “Free-For-All” day, when people can visit a host of museums for free.