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Tracing his family history on his father's side, Alex Haley begins with the story of his great-great-grandfather, J
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How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel’s identit
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Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical is an autobiography by Ralph Chaplin, a member of the Industri
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At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who,
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Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregna
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In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The C
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The haunting of the Bell family at their home in Tennessee started out harmless enough with knocking and scratching nois
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an inner-city pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time
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The story of a great airline is the story of people, and nowhere is this more evident than at American Airlines. Thus
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Abdisho bar Brikha (d. 1318) was a prominent East Syriac writer. While many of his works did not survive, his The Paradi
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