From a history of college sports and a handbook on campus free speech to an analysis of standardized tests, 2024 saw an ...
These are two themes that thread their way through this year’s recommended books and podcasts. By Christine Benz | Harriman ...
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The Ten Best History Books of 2024
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...
The first Congress began in 1789, and truth be told, it wasn’t really the first. The Confederation Congress met from 1781 ...
The co-founder of Spines, Yehuda Niv, insisted that the company "isn't self-publishing" or a vanity publisher. Niv, who ...
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The Ten Best Books About Food of 2024
Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...
“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
Learn more about the history of the Academy Award for best picture, and see all of the Oscar winners, from the last 90 years.
From a scientific take on screen time to nuclear war, a look at why we age to the future of our oceans, our writers pick ...
Author Barbara Taylor Bradford, best known for her debut novel "A Woman of Substance," has died at age 91. Her books often ...
Hoare’s book covers Serbia from the wars of liberation against Ottoman rule to the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. It is ...