Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

In the Middle Ages, prophecies of a coming global collapse proliferated across Europe. Conditions were ripe for a powerful strain of apocalypticism to take hold: Population growth, the rise of ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...

Lawrence shared her top read on Jan. 7 at 92NY's Jennifer Lawrence in Conversation with Josh Horowitz: Die My Love event in ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...

When it comes to education, there is no substitute for learning by doing. To teach children Spanish, have them speak it. To teach them art, give them paper and paints. Plenty of tech titans got their ...

He walked out of the precinct and wondered immediately what time it was. He didn’t have his phone, never wore a watch. It was dark when they took him in and dark when they let him out. Darkness in the ...

A 21-year-old computer operator feeds instructions to 'The Brain' in 1955. A 21-year-old computer operator feeds instructions to 'The Brain' in 1955.SSPL via Getty Images Concerns among some investors ...