Here are recommended reads about the United States — perfect for the history buff on your gift list, or anyone looking to learn more about how the U.S got to where it is today.

That great story, and many others, are shared in a biography on Whitmore called The Oom by Miles Masterson. After having ...

Three years after Connecticut became the third state to require Asian American and Pacific Islander history in K-12 education ...

The Sewickley post office is one step closer to being renamed in honor of a late Black borough historian and author. U.S.

One Arkansas high school senior's research uncovered the location of the M. Jackson Tourist Home, a safe haven for African ...

Black folks, it’s easy to feel discouraged in a world like today’s– where political violence and anti-Black policies are championed. But we also know Black Americans are some of the most resilient ...

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

Are blond white women OK? I am, notoriously, brunette, but even I have started to notice that blond white women are in such varied states of disarray. This summer, Sydney Sweeney seemed to tank her ...

Although Capitalism “occasionally lapses into a textbook tone,” said Hamilton Cain in The Boston Globe, “each chapter offers ...

Jeong Yeon Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Ithaca College, with the 2025-26 ...