Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

Put in the simplest of terms, patriotism is love of one's country and its ideals.

"I understand, on a deep level, why some of my friends complain that having a man in the room throws off the energy balance." ...

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

A nother mentor Sarna cites is Jacob Rader Marcus, the rabbi and historian who founded the American Jewish Archives at the ...

Writing these columns, at the risk of repeating myself, is at times a major struggle. There are times where just getting started feels like it just ain’t gonna happen at all. I look at the monitor ...

Some of you may have noticed the weather of late has been entirely too prominent. Colorful mega heat waves, tornados, hail stones the size of muskrats. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...