The dominant pitcher of his era, in a contentious nationally televised congressional hearing, testified that he never used ...

My read of Dead Center is both sympathetic and unsparing. Manchin is right about the need for a viable political center, yet the 78-year-old is also the wrong messenger for this late hour in the ...

There is plenty of minutae in the captains' agreement of the Ryder Cup, even if most of it never comes into play ...

The Searchlight Institute, founded by former senate staffer Adam Jentelson, epitomizes the careerist tendencies of ...

Today in History for Oct. 5: In 1502, Christopher Columbus reaches Costa Rica. In 1789, William Scoresby, English scientist and Arctic explorer, was born. In 1793, Christianity was abolished in France ...

Long before the Trump Administration's efforts to mute the history of U.S. slavery, Congress banned discussion of the topic.

It feels like a race you didn’t enter, in a world where things happen in a blink — and yet, as you’ll see in the new book “History Matters” by David McCullough, edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson and ...

A new posthumous collection from David McCullough, "History Matters," has just been published. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jon Meacham and Dorie McCullough Lawson about it.

Due to be published in time for Apple's 50th anniversary in 2026, David Pogue has written a mammoth coffee table book about ...

Two House Democrats introduced legislation to restore books at Department of Defense schools that were removed by the Trump administration.

Democrats hit back Thursday at President Donald Trump’s threat to fire thousands of federal workers if the government shuts down as soon as next week.