Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan adds Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf
Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker ...
Toronto author Anne Michaels wins Giller Prize for novel 'Held'
Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel "Held," a multi-generational examination of war and trauma ...
A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World ...
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Dune: Prophecy Episode 1 recap – Sisterhood, a royal wedding & death
Dune: Prophecy Episode 1 is a dense, brutal introduction to the sprawling machinations of the Sisterhood, and it introduces an enigmatic man with a plan to destroy the Bene Gesserit before it’s even ...
Book excerpt: "A Certain Idea of America" by Peggy Noonan
In her new collection of Wall Street Journal columns, Pulitzer Prize-winner Peggy Noonan writes about the history and ...
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With Friends Like These: World War II Advisory Efforts and the Origins of Sino-U.S. Competition
U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach ...
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Erasing Black Confederates
One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...
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‘Yale was really that big of a deal in winning WWII’: Elyse Graham’s new book discusses Yale professors-turned-spies
Sterling Memorial Library welcomed Elyse Graham GRD ’15 for a lecture and Q&A session about the history of academics and ...
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to kick off fundraising effort for Ohio women’s suffrage monument
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will kick off a fundraising campaign on Thursday ...
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Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured political moment.
Hegseth, advocate for firing 'woke' military leaders, picked for defense secretary
Hegseth is an Army National Guard veteran and according to his website served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Senior commanders react to Trump’s new cabinet picks
Within minutes of President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth as his selection ...