Siegal is the author of The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, As Written by the People Who Lived Through It Some years ago, at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter, “The ...

Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...

History is more than a collection of facts; it also involves reading against the grain, critique, periodization, and debates. Historians dedicate immense effort to uncovering the interconnected ...

Jacinth Green goes through some of the softcover books she references when supplementing her daughters’ education at home in Herndon, Va. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Perspective by Nick ...

As a child, I learned quickly that two histories were at work in America: the one taught in school about a young, virtuous George Washington refusing to tell a lie about chopping down the cherry tree.

Understanding the past "gives us perspective" on current events, said GQ. "And right now, we sorely need perspective." With "war raging in Europe" and Donald Trump causing chaos across the pond, it's ...

My obsession with literature exploded in my early teens. Back then, my diet consisted mostly of whatever classics I could find, novels by Jules Verne, poetry by Mario Benedetti, and a lot of horror ...

Despite the common e-book myths and backlashes, e-books have become the new face of famous textbooks and titles for bibliophiles. Its popularity shows a gradual increase, with a projected growth of ...

‘I felt I had a vocation,’ says the noted British author about his life’s work. ‘It was what God wanted me to do.’ Piers Paul Read is pictured with book covers of ‘Alive: The Story of the Andes ...

Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...

The New English Canaan by Thomas Morton criticized the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz The American Library Association reports that 2022 saw more ...

Some years ago, at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter, “The Persecution of the Jews in Photographs: The Netherlands, 1940–1945,” I was struck by single photograph of a young couple striding ...