Pulitzer Prize

In 1932, Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

Cameron Laux looks at how The Age of Innocence – published 100 years ago – marked a pivotal moment in US history.

Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.

When the Kamala Harris endorsement was spiked, the publisher cited tradition. A closer reading of history tells a different story.

Celebrating the composer’s 150th birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.

The historical novel isn’t cool. Popular? Yes. Enduring? Yes. A bit, well — for nerds? Also yes. Coolness lies in being at the right place at the right time.

How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history.

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.

Group biographies and the female friendship vogue.

Ida B. Wells reported on lynching in the South, risking her own safety.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

Kennedy defined courage as a willingness to take an unpopular stand in service of a larger, higher cause. But what cause?

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way

“Either they’ve got no conscience, or they’re not awake to the gravity of the situation.”

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

50 years later, Philip Levine's poem, "They Feed They Lion," helps us remember and understand that time.

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.