Until now, no book has covered all of Cold War air combat in the words of the men who waged it. In I Always Wanted to Fly, retired United States Air Force Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel has gathered first-person ...

In 1987 horrific tales of organ theft that had been circulating in Central and South America for years caught the attention of the international media. Soon reports came from all over the planet, rising ...

Brannon Costello is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University, editor of Conversations with Michael Chabon and Howard Chaykin: Conversations, and coeditor of Comics and the U.S. South ...

Ken Hechler is the author of The Bridge at Remagen.

Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right ...

A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W. E.B. Du Bois called the “talented tenth. ...

Matthew W. Hughey is professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. He holds affiliate faculty positions at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), the University of Barcelona (Spain), and ...

Teresa Nicholas is a freelance writer. For twenty-five years, she worked for Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, most recently as vice president of production. She has contributed articles and ...