Research for Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor from 1689 and explores Haiti from 1771 to 1845. Before gaining its independence, Haiti was known as ...

A Cincinnati man is trying to help others cope with tragic losses in their life.Albert Stanley Jackson is doing it with a book to help others like him as they fight grief and depression. On Thursday, ...

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED—Evelyn Waugh—Little, Brown ($2.50). Early one morning in 1944, a flight of German dive bombers swooshed down on the headquarters of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.

A country divided, with passions rising so high they result in violence and death: Five decades later, Vietnam War-era Kent State couldn’t be more relevant. The May 4, 1970, shootings by the National ...

How 'Love Story' became a defining bestseller that romanticised loss, emotional vulnerability, and changed how readers ...

WILSON: THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE (528 pp.) — Arthur S. Link—Princeton University ($5). One hot afternoon in July 1912, after a long week of bargaining, arguing and good Maryland rye, the Democratic ...

Nicholas Sparks has a talent for making you weepy. His 24th novel, "Counting Miracles," which leapt to the top of the New York Times bestseller list in its first week and is already slated for a film ...

What is the best way to tell the story of mental healthcare in America? Is it one of increasing progress out of a dark past? Is it a story of unremitting horror? How you tell the story depends upon ...

Environmental observers popularized the term “sacrifice zone” in recent decades to describe the geographic death wrought by industrialization. Land, soil, ecosystems, habitats and neighborhoods ...

When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it pierced the dreams of millions about who watched the tragedy unfold live on television. It also ...

“Bug Hollow” is the latest book from Michelle Huneven, a moving look at one family’s moments, large and small, after an unexpected tragedy. In Altadena, California, in the 1970’s, members of the ...