The first Congress began in 1789, and truth be told, it wasn’t really the first. The Confederation Congress met from 1781 ...
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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 ...
“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...
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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 ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
DC's Compact Comics are already pretty cheap, but with Amazon's B2G1 free Black Friday promotion, you can snag three of them ...
Latinos voted more for Donald Trump in the 2024 election than they did in 2020. Here are books to help understand why the ...
Written by Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown explores the Model Minority myth and the societal limitations this seemingly ...
A number of these books are pricey, but found online at deep discounts. A number are also, for the right person, a gift that never leaves their possession, never finds itself in a thrift store, ...
Donald Trump ’s rise to power as an elected authoritarian was not preordained or an act of destiny. Since at least 2016, ...
The poet Eileen Tabios wrote her new novel to distract herself from the traumatic aftermath of the Glass Fire, and to pay ...