Lit by Lightning" describes Thorpe's football breakthrough with the Carlisle Indian School against Penn in 1907.

A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the ...

Writers are known for their words, but sometimes they’d rather not sign their real name to them. Many famous authors took on ...

In Season three, viewers will be introduced to Bill Camp’s J.P. Morgan, the famous American financier that funded America's railroads, led the merging of Edison General Electric and Thomson ...

Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has – like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change – seen an ...

They say that history is written by the victors. But the combatants, fundamental to the outcome of war, rarely appear in this history - whether victors or vanquished. University of the Basque Country ...

For Sam Flood Jr., writing was always easier than speaking as spoken words eluded him until he was 5 years old. He and his family sit down with NBC’s Anne Thompson to talk about his life story ...

‘The Afterlife of Malcolm X’ looks at how we’ve remembered an icon Mark Whitaker’s new book is about the many ways Americans have embraced the minister in the 60 years since his assassination.

One of the most significant books of the Dalit thinker and writer, is his autobiography, which also narrates the history of modern Kerala from the perspective of the marginalised ...

The earliest Nigerian political autobiographies were written by key figures in the country’s independence movement and post-independence leadership.

Black history is a major part of American history; however, some of the most influential people can go unrecognized. Brandi Adams, an assistant professor in the Department of English, said it is ...

February is Black History Month, and many prominent historical figures are from the Metro Detroit area.