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Being labeled “the Czar of Noir” isn’t anything new for Eddie Muller. The San Francisco-based author and TCM film host has been writing and talking ab...

While Rosie the Riveter is a vivid symbol of World War II, emphasizing the vital role women played in the workplace during the war, an "Airplane ...

The publishing industry has undergone change since 1960, notes Dan Sinykin, the Emory University English professor whose new book is "Big Fiction...

Fifty years after his death, Pablo Picasso remains a central figure in the art world. Along with his famous periods--blue, rose and African, for examp...

When Betty Friedan returned to her home town of Peoria in 1978 for a high school reunion (Peoria High School, class of 1938), she'd already cover...

Born on a farm in Oklahoma's Cherokee Nation in 1879, Will Rogers went on to become one of the most celebrated people of the 20th century, hobnob...

Dawidziak, a former TV critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Akron Beacon Journal, has written books about three prominent TV shows: Columbo, Twil...

In turning their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places, the authors of "The Injustice of Place" discovered that ...

Bill Hammack follows in the illustrious footsteps of Don Herbert ("Mr. Wizard"), Carl Sagan and Bill Nye the Science Guy (and, to some exten...

The Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain remains with us today but when Piggly Wiggly first appeared on the scene in 1916 it was part of a whole new concep...

As co-founder of the Rails to Trails Confederacy, Peter Harnik has visited 207 rail trails across the United States as part of his work on a fascinati...

There are a lot of baseball books out there but few delve into the kind of detail that Steve Gietschier (rhymes with "itchier") delivers in ...