A new posthumous collection from David McCullough, "History Matters," has just been published. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jon Meacham and Dorie McCullough Lawson about it.

By making historic events relatable on a personal level, these authors are sowing seeds of compassion, something in short supply these days.

The essays, reviews, lectures and speeches contained in ‘History Matters’ all date from, with some exceptions, roughly ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We all know the old saying: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Our past is a part of us, ...

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

In “Frontier Comrades,” Jim Wilke recounts the stories of Westerners who were gay, lesbian, bisexual and transvestites.

Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated when "The Women" by Kristin Hannah is set. Women’s History Month is almost at a close, but there's still time to add ...

Under the Trump administration, National Parks are being forced to remove anything that casts a negative light on America.

The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove any books from its museums or gift shops that cast America in a negative light. That could include stories about slavery.