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The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

Most American history books begin with a familiar story — one centered on colonization, conquest, and the so-called “founding” of a nation. But Kathleen DuVal’s latest work flips that narrative on its ...

Get a better sense of how illnesses have shaped history with these gripping reads about history’s most notorious diseases.

The second part of the book takes us into the modern era. With industrialisation, Bartlett points out, the potential for ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of the global evolution of books themselves. In the five multiple ...

The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S. Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books.