An Indigenous History of Māori Art, Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, University of Chicago Press, 616pp, ...

Local author Thomas Kohnstamm's new book, "Supersonic," is an intergenerational story that takes place in Seattle in the 19th ...

The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief ...

February is Black History Month, a time the country highlights and celebrates the accomplishments of Black Americans. And the ...

The South Carolina Board of Education voted on Tuesday to remove four books from school libraries across the state.

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

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"High Banks & Heroes," with foreword by Richard Petty, tells the history of the Daytona 500. But it also chronicles earlier Daytona racing and speed.

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The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Here’s how to meet the mastermind of the Regency period romance novels that inspired the popular Netflix series.

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to ...