In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

In this engrossing tour de force, Edelstein ventures across the ancient and modern eras to trace the evolution of revolution as a political idea.

Melinda French Gates discussed her decision to leave the Gates Foundation, her support of women’s reproductive freedom and ...

Chris Anderson was leafing through various books in Allegheny College’s archival collection when he came across a long “lost” artifact. “I was planning an event and I was looking randomly through some ...

Judy Hutson introduces Johnny Harrington, a groundbreaking Black female spy character inspired by Josephine Baker's secret ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

When you're a billionaire, your advice tends to come from friends in high places.

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

As the executive director of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, she keeps the language alive in the ...

Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone has penned a new book, 'TCM Imports: Timeless Favorites and Hidden Gems of World ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

He started writing essays to “clarify within my own mind how these seemingly disparate issues have a relationship that affects the lives of rural peoples and instructs their political expressions.” ...