Historian Robert Caro's book "The Power Broker" details how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York through the roads ...

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For all his success, Malcolm Gladwell maintains that nothing has changed in his approach, his work ethic, or his ...

纵观孟子的一生，从一个没落的贵族，成长为一代大儒，可谓是逆旅人生。公元前372年，孟子出生于邹国（今山东邹城），是鲁国贵族孟孙氏的后裔。早年丧父的孟子，在母亲的悉心教导下成长，他拜孔子之孙孔伋的门人为师，学成之后，为了推行自己的政见，他开始周游列国，游说诸侯。历经二十余年，他游历了齐、宋、滕、梁等多个国家，还担任过齐宣王的客卿，最后归邹，他生命中四分之一的时间几乎都在路上。晚年，孟子传道授业解惑， ...

Censorship doesn’t always have to be loud, like a towering plume of smoke from a blazing stack of controversial books. It can ...

A new exhibition in New York City uses more than 200 texts and artifacts to contemplate Lincoln's rise to the nation's ...

"It just felt like it was a vessel that contained the history of the Delta, and Mississippi, and potentially the whole country," Thompson said of his inspiration for the book. "I just started doing ...

Roosevelt vs Lindbergh in the Shadow of War,” historian H.W. Brands chronicles the fight against isolationism in the years ...

In a new review for Health Affairs Reads, Michael S. Gerber reviews "On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” by Dr.

The Living Land Acknowledgement, an interactive art installation by Johnny Bear Contreras, aims to share the story of the ...

When deciding on a new book, if the jacket-flap teasers and back-cover blurbs don’t completely sell it, there’s no substitute ...

The transatlantic slave trade, spanning four centuries, generated immense wealth for Western nations and played a critical ...