The American master of horror fiction was as peculiar in his life as he was in his writing.
He may have been the greatest caricaturist of all time; he has imitators to this day. But his true passion was for a very different discipline.
In an exchange of letters, a man who had an immeasurable impact on how the great struggle of our times was waged looks back on how it began.
As a ten-year-old boy, the author had a role to play in bringing Douglas MacArthur’s vision of democracy to a shattered Japan.
Three movies newly available on video cast a cold and, occasionally, even scornful eye on their subjects.
How two bold sisters set up a business in the very citadel of masculine prerogative: 1870s Wall Street
The saga of Liberia’s beginnings reflects both America’ humanitarian generosity and its racism.
Every December, a 350-year-old New Hampshire port re-creates centuries of changing holiday traditions.
Route 66: An American Odyssey
Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian: 1809-1922
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