Dispatches on the Ultrarich National Book Award winner Osnos (Age of Ambition) provides an amusing and enraging glimpse into the lives of the überwealthy. In a series of essays originally ...

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Dorothy Levitt, the UK’s first female racer, will be the subject of a new miniseries highlighting her trailblazing life and ...

Claire Hoffman's superb biography traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a star preacher whose legacy lives on in L.A.

The historian and critic Eva Díaz’s new book, ‘After Spaceship Earth’, follows R. Buckminster Fuller and how his legacy has ...

From the silent era to the oil-crazed '50s to today, the two industries have been inextricably linked, says the author of the ...

A&P was once the largest retailer in the world. These vintage photos of A&P in Alabama will have you feeling nostalgic.

Underrated books that quietly hold multitudes, each page a soft nudge, each story a lasting echo. This World Book Day, ...

He traces his Continue reading » The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History ...

The complicated and fascinating story of how alcoholic beverages morphed from disreputable habit to ubiquitous facet of ...

One of the greatest inven­tors in American history, Granville T. Woods, is born in Columbus, Ohio. During his life he ...

Excerpt from the new book 'Sister, Sinner,' by Claire Hoffman, about the life and mysterious disappearance of 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.