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With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

The text is a mysterious medieval marvel. A new book claims to know its true origin. A page from the Book of Kells, ninth century illuminated manuscript. This page shows the Virgin and child, an ...

The planning for the 22nd Louisiana Book Festival — a full day of author events, performances and family-friendly activities — has begun. The Louisiana Center for the Book has announced the date for ...

Christine tells PEOPLE that what started as a playful, bookish prank between her and her husband became a viral misunderstanding on TikTok Courtesy of Christine; Thecq.bookreview A holiday prank ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Peter Bronson, author of popular regional best-sellers about Cincinnati’s history, has a new book out just in time for the holiday season. Magical History Tour is a collection of 5 ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

Bernard DeVoto once tried to buck up his friend Catherine Drinker Bowen, who was wavering between a career in history and one in music. “Sure you’re romantic about American history,” wrote DeVoto, a ...

On the evening of Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her newly published book, “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” A Harvard professor of History and Law ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin's "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History - and ...

”The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” By John U. Bacon. Publisher: Liveright, 464 pages. $26. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in ...