“The only difference between the Black AF version of history and the way America’s story is customarily recounted is that whiteness is not the center of the universe,” the book’s ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's book "The World" investigates the history of humanity through families - the Caesars and Borgias, the Kims and Tudors, Roosevelts and the House of Saud. The book spans a ...

When I flip through his new book, Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and Unseen, I cannot help but think of the children’s hagiographies of my youth. But rather than Joan of Arc in h ...

He described one of the books, written by Rev. George Washington Williams in 1880, as a "precious and most historic book" and the "first history of the Negro race." The other book was a Bible he ...

Dartmouth resident Joel Ávila has written a new book exploring the history and culture of Pico Island in the Azores. The book, "Shades of Black and Gray - An inquiry into the Island of Pico and ...

Discover the story behind the films, photographs and artifacts depicting that historic time in “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” an exhibit at The Senator John Heinz History Center. Developed ...

What is a book, anyway? If you have ever read a novel on your smartphone, you can’t help but ponder that question. In the 1990s, when “the history of the book” was taking off as an academic ...

MONTEFIORE: So I hope that one finds as much variety here as one does in the book as one does in world history. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ODE TO BILLIE JOE") BOBBIE GENTRY: (Singing) It was the 3 of ...