My colleagues and I felt this way over the past few months as we undertook the challenging, thrilling task of assembling a list of the great American novels—136 works of fiction that we consider ...

When looking for the best in contemporary romance, look no further than Emily Henry. With an impressive number of hits under her belt ( Beach Read, Happy Place, and Book Lovers, just to name a few), ...

A History of American Puritan Literature is a collaborative effort to create not a singular literary history, but a series of interlocked new histories of American puritan literature. ‘Teachers of ...

The book is also a healthy reminder of the contemporary stakes of Native American history. This is not a subject that is distant from our world. Like several of these other books, “Our History ...

Overwhelmed by the approximately 1 million books available, I gave up on any hope of methodical ... who was killed in one of ...

And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this ...

In the fall of 2023, C-SPAN partnered with the Library of Congress to produce the series, Books That Shaped America. The series explored key works from American history that have had a major ...

Here are the books that delivered in 2024 ... 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi was a pivotal moment in American history. But celebrated journalist Wright Thompson, who was born and ...