Rifling through the great junk drawer of history, Hirsch has come up with 101 miscellaneous treasures — some unexpected (George Sands’s right arm), some obvious (the contraceptive pill). Each ...

It is said that history is written by the victors, or as Mark Twain put it: “The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” Historical accounts are certainly dominated by those ...

This has been a stellar year for audiobooks that enrich our understanding of and appreciation for Black history, related in voices and styles that range from comprehensive sagas to authoritative deep ...