Explore the incredible stories of 25 war heroes you probably never heard of. From WWI to WWII, these unsung military legends ...

Russian Indologist Dr Lyudmila Khokhlova received the Padma Shri for promoting Indian culture. She has taught Indian history, literature, philosophy, Sanskrit, and Hindi in Russia. Dr Khokhlova ...

Before the war, she studied history. By 1942, she was writing it in blood. Lyudmila Pavlichenko became the most successful female sniper in history — 309 confirmed kills, a hero of Sevastopol, and ...

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To read Julia Ioffe's new book, "Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy" is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the ...

Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American history through this selected collection of resources from across the Smithsonian ...

As soon as the sniper entered the battlefield in World War II, warfare changed forever. The idea that a single soldier could hold back entire military units out of fear of being shot by an unseen ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

The transformation unfolded so gradually, perhaps over tens of thousands of years, that any individual human living alongside those animals wouldn’t have registered it. But in retrospect, that ...

It didn’t take long for BookToker Asia Lin to understand that “Wicked,” the book by Gregory Maguire, would be nothing like the musical she had first seen months earlier. “It was the first page,” Lin ...

Hundreds attended the 2024 National Book Awards, but despite the tuxedos, gowns and lofty gilded ceilings, the 75th annual ceremony felt more intimate than stuffy. Booklovers and publishers sang in ...