This violent act of erasure sought to both delegitimize and eradicate queer and transgender people from history itself. Milo Todd’s breathtaking debut, “The Lilac People,” unearths an essential ...

In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in the hairy hides of animals like deer or boar to act […] ...

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

IN THE CHAPTER about literary Newport in his history of the town, Edmund Wheeler wrote with great admiration about Sarah ...

When crossing the Colorado, full of sandbars, the boatman would call out "mark twain" (two feet), grabbing the travelers' ...

If you loved "Hidden Figures" and "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," check out these other great books on women doing ...

By Kayla Landers, April 15, 2025 To many, history is just a subject, but to James D. Rietveld, a lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona, it’s a helpful tool for understanding oneself and the world. Rietveld ...

The Naval Academy also threw out another book Kendi authored, "Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," as well as "Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose ...

A wide array of books on race and gender were targeted, dealing with such topics as African American women poets, entertainers who wore blackface and the treatment of women in Islamic countries. Also ...

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There hasn’t been a single resource that brings that information together. She hopes her book, “The History of Brookfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio” changes that. The book is now available ...