Search results for

Country, company, and family all come together in the story of Saudi Arabia. The al Saud family put its name on the country in the 20th century, as both…

In a new book, journalist Jenny Nordberg writes about the bacha posh, young girls who dress up like boys to enjoy the freedoms of being an Afghan male for as long as they can.

This quirky concoction, which traces its decades-old roots to Fall River, Mass., took off when Chinese restaurants adapted their menus to appeal to European textile workers. And people still love it.

A large number of African-American military veterans were murdered by lynching after returning from war. An annual re-enactment of a lynching in Alabama tells one such story.

Hispanic History Month is unusual among declared months, because it begins in the middle of September and goes until the middle of October. There IS a…

Journalist Susan Jacoby tells Fresh Air that more than half of Americans will change religion at least once in their adult life time. Her new book is Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion.

The second installment of B. Catling's trilogy is full of oddities and quirks and familiar characters.

The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the Smithsonian Institution's first African American secretary.

Julie Satow's book reads like the biography of a distant relative as much as the history of a landmark building; the author argues that no other building so directly reflects the city itself.