Those photographs of lost toys, books and, especially, garments may be as close as we can come to bearing witness to those ...

Robert Smalls was a real-life legend — an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship, navigated it past enemy lines, and delivered freedom to himself, his family, and his crewmates. But his heroism ...

Brown lived virtually his entire life at Spring Green Farm, which his distant ancestor John Brown acquired in 1782, and was a ...

The aftershocks of fathers — particularly ones as seismic as Jobs — rumble through Sarah MacLean’s new novel: a gripping inheritance drama, wrapped around a swoony summer romance, that offers a ...

Books on the mushroom trial are being raced to print. Big-name authors were seen in the courtroom. But the best true-crime ...

Local author Art Sommers has produced a colorful and fun book on historic places and happenings in Hillsboro, Oregon. Born ...

The Kuehns were arrested the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But they lived in high style for many years before ...

Easter eggs have a long and rich history in the DC and Marvel comic universes — and for good reason. Superhero comic books are among the most Easter egg–friendly storytelling mediums available. By ...

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

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