A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman discusses LDS prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, who led fights over evolution, the age ...

From Batman: the Movie to Batman Forever to Batman & Robin, this is the definitive ranking of every live-action Batman movie of the 20th century.

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Benes argues that the 20th century peasant war erupted largely as a ... whose authors were seldom interested in villagers’ own views. Benes’s book reveals a fascinating aspect of modern history long ...

Over 1,500 people died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 14-15, 1912, following its fateful collision with an iceberg in one of the most notorious maritime disasters in history.

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

The spirit of Karl Marx is alive and well and living in America. That's according to Illinois State University history ...

Presented in the form of a wartime diary, the book describes a city devastated by Allied air raids ... The author was Norman Lewis, one of the great semi-forgotten writers of the last century. A ...

Some things become so ubiquitous that we barely notice them anymore. This trope, however, has a deep history we all forgot.