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James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...
Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, ...
Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of ...
Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...
Quite Literally Books, a new heritage publishing house, aims to get books written by American women from around a century ago ...
Jeff Ficek continues his Spirit of '76 series with a look at how the Founding Fathers' thirst for knowledge — from ancient ...
"In the days of 1940 when Hitler swept across Western Europe, leaving only England standing alone, it looked then as if ...
From the Magna Carta to World War II, which ended 80 years ago, the history of the continent has been a succession of ...
My Name Is Emilia del Valle” takes place during Chile’s 1891 civil war, as an American journalist finds her life in peril.
The first Orthodox Church in the US was established in New Orleans in 1864, built in 1866, by Greek merchants.
A bloody civil war and the death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende’s most recent ...
IRA vow to hand over weapons; Soviet talks with Arab leaders break down; Schuman Plan for joint Franco-German steel ...