Both Roger Williams and Johnny Cash believed they could best serve God and country by remembering which was which.

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In the 1520s and 1530s, a man named Esteban de Dorantes, known as Estevanico, walked across the deserts of what is now Texas, ...

Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...

During Reconstruction, Georgia elected its first Black legislators, the Original 33, but then it kicked them out because of ...

In the 1930s, a Black postal worker in Harlem, New York, wrote a book that was both a travel guide and a survival guide. The Negro Motorist Green Book later became known as “the Bible of Black travel.

Africa’s population is now estimated at nearly 1.5 billion people; the continent is urbanizing faster than any other region in the world and projections suggest that nearly 80% of future population ...

In honor of America’s 250th birthday, we polled PW’s staffers and freelance reviewers, as well as members of the National Book Critics Circle, on the most essential books published in the U.S. since ...

We've been independently researching and testing products for over 120 years. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more about our review process. There's only one American ...

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States, we asked 25 literary luminaries to each pick one book that they believe reflects where American life is headed or speaks to the present in a ...

Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique and public engagement. From the Dreyfus Affair (a political scandal ...