BOONE—Author David Patteson will host an event at the Watauga County Public Library focusing on his book The Old Place.

After he and his brother join them in New York, the novel opens out into a more conventional consideration of rootlessness ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired ...

A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.

Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

The newest quarter in the American Women Quarters Program honors the contributions of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl ...

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize has been awarded. On the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced that Edda L. Fields-Black, author ...

A hate crime that was witnessed by people around the country has now led a Chicago native to create a tool for ...

Kennesaw State University alumni will see their classwork bound, covered, and sold, as part of the most comprehensive guide to date on all the historic sites owned and operated by the state of Georgia ...

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

It’s also familiar, as readers of “On Air,” Steve Oney’s engrossing and entertaining new history of NPR, will discover. The book opens in 1983, when profligate spending by a visionary but ...

He showed no emotion as he was sentenced, initially heading to London’s Belmarsh Prison before being transferred to Lowdham Grange Prison in Nottingham following a “series of threats” made ...