Books

It’s one of those noble qualities we all want. What traits do courageous people share? Is courage something that can be...

Through wars hot and cold the comic book company whose pantheon of heroes has included Captain America for more than 70 years...

Task & Purpose spoke with author Mary Roach about “Grunt,” an investigation into the mind-blowing world of military science.

Civilians know that the war in Iraq was a different kind of war, with large numbers of weekend warrior National Guardsmen and...

UNC-Chapel Hill religion historian Bart Ehrman's latest book, mounting a historical proof for the existence of Jesus, is so...

Tom King's "Sheriff of Babylon” is a crime drama in comic book form set during the early years of the Iraq War.

As America's World War II generation passes into history, one of the last living veterans of the pivotal campaigns of the...

Made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific, McEnery's rifle company, the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division...

In retrospect, it seems inevitable that award-winning food writer John T. Edge would write a book about the nation's food...

Top-ranked restaurants? Check. Best-selling memoirs? Sure. Emmy-winning television series about all the places where food and...