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Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point ...

The book unfolds at the intersection of love & revolution, where personal dreams are swept away by political storms ...

During one of my last visits with my mom, Terry took a photo that I treasure. We stopped by my mother’s group home in ...

Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? In this chapter, Alberti explores the two ideas through the ...

Carrie Underwood won “American Idol” 20 years ago but kept private life separate from her county music career. So her Trump inauguration performance shocked fans.

Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church,' journalist Kevin Sack offers perspective on the ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

BUY THIS BOOK. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon Laurie Gwen Shapiro. Viking, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-29590-8.

A Deadly American Marriage, streaming on Netflix, dives deep into a real-life tragedy that feels stranger than fiction. The film follows the unraveling of Jason Corbett’s life after moving from ...