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By Education Fellow Reva FrankelTomorrow brings the end of Black History Month. Most often when we discuss the Jewish connection ...

Since moving to Mississippi ten years ago, I have been continually struck by the state’s rich but complicated history. One ...

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...

Lois Leveen’s newest novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, is now available. There’s a novel I first read years ago ...

These days, when people write a book, they invariably have an acknowledgments page, where they thank a few people or–like ...

When I first anounced that I was writing a book about Ulysses S. Grant’s General Orders #11, the most notorious ...

You are working on what?” most of the people I met in Jerusalem asked while I was writing When General ...