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NEW YORK — When Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in 2011, two major bookstores in Nashville had closed and physical bookstores in general seemed endangered as Amazon’s share of the market kept grow

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When she isn't working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas

David Clayton-Thomas, the powerful lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose husky, high-strung tenor defined 1960s hits such as "Spinning Wheel" and "And When I Die," has died at the age of 84.

NEW YORK — David Clayton-Thomas, the lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears whose husky, high-strung tenor on “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die” and other hits helped make the

America’s birth is rooted in his most profound contradiction — the man who proclaimed that “all men are created equal” while being a slaveholder to the end of his life

A collection of early public writings by the future Pope Leo XIV will be published in English this fall. “Freedom Under Grace: Reflections on the Spiritual Tradition That Formed Me”

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — He's a prize-winning presidential historian who wrote an entire biography of Thomas Jefferson. But even Jon Meacham needs to think for a moment before defining what it

NEW YORK (AP) — For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn't sign the Declaration of Independence — the lawyer and statesman John Dicki...

America’s 250th is a moment to challenge the lingering image of a man who at times has been ignored, ridiculed or literally cast aside.

‘He wasn’t opposed to independence per se, but he thought it should happen gradually and without bloodshed,’ a historian said