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A history of the fight for civil rights in the North, which was very different from the movement in the South.

How several well-to-do American museums came to deal in contraband antiquities.

The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony by Stephen Schwartz made me sit up and take notice. Why had I not known this history? I began to understand what we are dealing with more clearly because of this book. I am glad I found this book in ...

In the 139 years of its existence, Goldman Sachs has endured the Great Depression, the collapse of the high-tech hedge fund called Long Term Capital Management in the late 1990s, and, most recently, the crisis in world credit markets.

For parents hoping to use "Obama-mania" to seize upon a teachable moment, children's publisher Scholastic has put together a list of books about First Kids, pets, and life in the White House.

The Rev. Billy Graham has not preached in front of an audience since 2005, but there are countless people around the world with stories of how they have come to find God through his words. Now, some of those stories have been collected by grandsons Basyle and Aram Tchividjian.

Al' America Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots By Jonathan Curiel The New Press; 246 pages; $25.95 Most Americans know that pizza comes from Italy, that fireworks were invented in China and that salsa - the condiment and the dance - can be...

AP - It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir.

In this sequel to The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell and his family awaken an Emperor of ancient China and his terracotta army.

AP - The Rev. Andrew Greeley is in critical condition at a Chicago-area hospital after falling and fracturing his skull.