What a bet about the price of five metals over time can teach us about resource consumption and human innovation.

One historian's account of the past few centuries in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, has recently been igniting some changes.

As you might imagine, many of those titles are new books published on Cincinnati history. I love the way this city embraces its history, which seems to be an inexhaustible source of interesting ...

Journalist Lee Hawkins details the eye-opening discoveries revealed during his search to fill in the gaps of his family ...

Though not strictly a “history” book, Stick and Rudder was first published during World War II and remains a relevant foundational read for flight students and veteran pilots alike looking to ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking the removal and review of certain books from Department of Defense Education Activity schools, “potentially related to gender ideology or ...

Lecture: Shannon Eaves Discusses her book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. 5–6:30 p.m. School of Sciences and Mathematics Building, Room 124 For the Department of ...

By Emily Eakin Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right ...

JCR sent the then-new university books on numerous subjects, including Jewish religious texts, science, history, and German literature. In the same time period, JCR also sent books to other Jewish ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

A new children’s book is hitting the shelves. “Unstoppable John” is a non-fiction book based on story of John Lewis wanting ...

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...