A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden Middle School in the Wallkill School District, he’s also one of Ulster County’s ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.

The administration is fundamentally changing the shape of our democracy — but to get away, you can crack open a book (for now ...

When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he ...

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...

Military life during war or peacetime provides a bounty of interesting stories so it's no surprise that TV shows have ...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's film — a real-time recreation of a 2006 battle — had several key factors they wouldn’t ...

Steve Rogers, frêle et timide, se porte volontaire pour participer à un programme expérimental qui va le transformer en un ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...