Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...

Callahan, a recent Santa Monica High School graduate now attending UC Berkeley, has released "500 Events That Shaped the ...

The B-list novels of Mary Shelley; I’m in the early stages of drafting a new book about Mary Shelley, so I have to read ...

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters and who sought their ...

Once the heart of Sumerian civilization, the Great Ziggurat of Ur rose above the Mesopotamian plains 4,000 years ago. Built to honor the moon god Nanna, this stepped temple stood as both a place of ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Students at a school district in Kentucky are putting down their phones and cracking books at a record pace now that devices are banned during class, district officials said. The head-spinning shift ...

Grifters are publishing AI-generated books about the shooting for Charlie Kirk. Amazon has since removed them, but conspiracies about the book are spreading. Credit: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via ...

Damali Peterman, left, is the author of "Be Who You Are to Get What You Want: A New Way to Negotiate for Anyone Who's Ever Been Underestimated." She joined Shazi Visram, founder of Healthynest and ...