Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance. By Juan Vidal In H.M. Bouwman ...
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...
Horton eventually secured his released as, fortunately, he was able to call on white New York neighbors ... before the Civil War. As historian Martha S. Jones describes in her book “Birthright ...
Jon Goodrich loves Bennington. He also loves old buildings. Those two elements intersect in a new locally available book he ...
The Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...
The New Brunswick Military History Museum's latest acquisition is a belated thank you for service to the country before it ...
Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...
Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...