A Lowcountry historian-turned-storyteller is shedding light on cultures worlds apart and the connections between them.Damon ...

Bill Foege — the man behind smallpox eradication — reflects on politics and public health as Trump prepares to take office.

We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands ...

Building the Worlds That Kill Us shows how social, political, and economic order in the U.S. has always favored some, at the ...

Done in collaboration with the Historical Society of Palm Beach County, the book examines what Russell Kelley calls Palm ...

Throughout the ages, smallpox, now known to be caused by a virus, was a serious, and often deadly, disease that had spread ...

Santa Rosa schools are working to obtain a African American History Exemplary District designation and infuse African ...

Throughout his lifetime, Jimmy Carter took on many titles: 39th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... This was reasonable, given the C.I.A.’s history, but Coll indicates that it was exactly the wrong fear.

National Book Award winner Perry traces the connection between the color blue and its equally harrowing and divine roles in Black history and culture. From the dyed indigo cloths that were traded ...

This year’s top titles range from an alphabet book of quirky tunes to an authentic portrait of our nation Megan Gambino Senior Editor When I first started compiling this year-end book list ...

Condoms or ‘sheaths’ have existed in one form or another since ancient times, according to scholar Jessica Borge in her book “Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and ...