Cultural Heritage

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I ...

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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is...

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research NonfictionNamed one of the Top 3 JFK Books by Parade Magazine. Named 1 of The 5 Ess...

Uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, an...

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is a poignant biography as told to Olive Gilbert by Isabella Bomefree-a slave born at the end of the eightee...

The United States of America has had many presidents that Americans agree were either great or awful, while some fall into a mediocre categor...

Sandra Brown revisits two pivotal Christmases from her own past in this heartfelt and intimate essay. One needn't be familiar with Brown's ...

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling ...

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling ...

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling ...

A recipient of two Golden Kite Awards for excellence in children's literature, Loren Long is the New York Times best-selling author and illus...

From renowned diplomat and musician András Simonyi -- whom Stephen Colbert calls "the only ambassador I know who ...

I have survived a plane which caught on fire over the Tasman, have lived with a tribe in pre-Indenpendence Papuan New Guinea.I have hugged a ...

Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as human computers use...

A mango...is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, e...