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Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada.

From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it.

In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan explores how we no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.

Brian Cuban was living a lie. With a famous last name and a successful career as a lawyer, Brian was able to hide his clinical depression and alcohol and cocaine addictions-for a while.

Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a not terribly successful rock band. Once, he had enormous, almost magical, charisma both onstage and off--but now, life has taken its toll on Theo.

A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is-and only an openness

Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition.

Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love.

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet.

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a remarkable examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period.

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years.

Almost forty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture.

Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.

Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.