DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry. Simon and Schuster.

While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Larson, who has written best-selling books “Devil in the White City,” “Isaac’s ... “People were muttering about modern day ...

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

Growing up the son of Basque immigrants in rural California, Julian Zabalbeascoa mostly connected his family’s heritage to ...

Katherine Vaz, author of the Civil War story “Above the Salt,” will have a meet-and-greet at 6 p.m. Nov. 19 at Jacksonville ...

Nigel Hamilton illuminates the conflict through a joint examination of its commanders.

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centred on Algeria's ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria ...

There is a notable absentee from this year's international book fair in Algiers -- the work of French-Algerian writer Kamel ...