Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...

Poet Threa Almontaser won the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award for her collection The Wild Fo...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...

Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....

In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman...

Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...

Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl...

Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...

Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...