The end of the year is a time to reflect, to look back. If you want to look way back, Books We Love - NPR's list of the best reads from 2021 - has hundreds of recommendations, including books about ...

After 2020 brought the most devastating global pandemic in a century and a national reckoning with systemic racism, 2021 ushered in a number of welcome developments, including Covid vaccines, the ...

In our efforts to increase and diffuse knowledge, we highly recommend these 87 titles this year. As the year draws to a close, with all its new books stretched out before us, Smithsonian magazine's ...

Most Americans probably know the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 in Havana Harbor led to the Spanish-American War and helped liberate Cuba from Spain. But do they know that Cuban silver funded the ...