From Olympic gold to pro football and baseball, Jim Thorpe conquered every sport he touched. But behind his success was a battle against adversity—this is his incredible story.

The key protagonist of the American oil story was John D. Rockefeller, who was admired and loathed in equal measure for his ...

Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

We are shaped by our past and cannot escape our personal, familial or societal history. Caitlin Flanagan, whose writing in The Atlantic cuts to the heart of modern life’s most charged topics, has a ...

As Margaret Burman Risher looks out from her porch, she thinks back on the 94 years she has lived in Turner Station, remembering a different world. Here's why.

The Black Experience at Michigan State University” chronicles the history and impact of Black students, faculty and staff at ...

The story of Kraków is one of light and shadow, where Middle Ages and Renaissance chapters contrast with darker pages from ...

Author Charu Gupta’s fine-grained studies of lesser-known vernacular intellectuals and practitioners illuminate a whole range ...

Revolving around two career criminals and a Thameside mansion, The Burial Plot is a gripping historical thriller about murder, deception, and a young woman’s struggle to seize power from a dangerous ...

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has boarded an adaptation ... The script is based on investigative journalist Mat Youkee’s book Forty Days in the Jungle and follows the June 2023 rescue of ...

We recognize the loss of mental health as first and foremost a medical issue today, but there was a time when the distorted thinking and actions associated with mental illness were primarily a ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February.