And so the affable farm hand has embarked on a national tour to promote his latest book, leaving his far less competent boss ...

The last time Lois Boisson talked about getting a big sponsor it was a joke, but now France’s new tennis hope might actually ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

Sarah Wilson is the author of This One Wild and Precious Life (Harper Collins).

They represent the right to get lost in your own thoughts. To disappear into other worlds. Ones as self-indulgent as “Eat, Pray, Love,” as bewitched as Narnia, or as squishy as a giant peach.

The powerful biographical drama, Harriet, tells the story of real-life hero, Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and went on ...

Harriet Tubman photographed in 1877, 14 years after the Combahee River Raid. Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her ...

Plants, so often the minor characters in stories about charismatic living things, are the stars of this vividly illustrated ...

A Southeast Michigan-based ensemble won its first Grammy this year and will play two concerts – one of them free – in metro ...

Edda Fields-Black won the prize for her book 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman ... even under these very difficult circumstances.” She is just one of two women who have won the Pulitzer Prize in history ...