Review by Richard Norton Smith Read the review During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal autonomy and equality. Review by ...

Tilly Laskey has been a curator at the Maine Historical Society for 10 years. She’s created a platform for other curators or ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

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Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

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The family of a southwest Minnesota veteran killed in World War II is trying to find the letters he wrote home. Kelly ...

The family of a southwest Minnesota veteran killed in World War II is trying to find the letters he wrote home. Kelly ...

Carol Becker is a writer, educator, and former dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and The School of the Art ...