Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Together, they offered fundamentally novel ways for Americans to understand what it means to feel free, culminating in today's ubiquitous moral language of human rights. Set against a sweeping ...

The 223-page book takes a brief, yet broad, look at various moments in the country’s history, from its origins to slavery and ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write ...