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YOURTag: History
With the keen eye of an expert historian, Joyce Appleby traces the unlikely origins of capitalism in “The Relentless Revolution.”
Peter Richardson’s “A Bomb in Every Issue” examines the legacy of a magazine that made history with its risky and controversial journalism.
“Never-Ending Birds” by David Baker covers all the topics that make great poetry with sweeping Midwestern landscapes and stories of childhood, loss, and new loves.
"Anne Frank" by Francine Prose combines literary gossip and historical facts to lay claim to the belief that the young WWII icon was nothing short of a literary genius.
Lauren Weber challenges the guilt-free spending that many Americans have come to take for granted.
Douglas Brinkley takes on Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to save America's wilderness in "The Wilderness Warrior," a book as big as its subject.
In “Wolf Hall,” Hilary Mantel tackles a larger-than-life character that has been exonerated, bashed, recast, and recycled for centuries: Henry VIII.
One million: There's something magical and mysterious about the number.
You hear it all the time, but what is it? Can you imagine one million? Can you see one million of anything?
The record label of the Smithsonian Institution has preserved the most important music in our nation’s history, as well as music from around the world.
LIFE is back. Come see amazing archives of the most important photographs in our nation’s history and thousands of stunning new pictures.
