Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...

Two new books, 'On Freedom' and 'Erasing History,' trace why the U.S. is susceptible to fascist appeals from politicians like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.

If you don’t think much happens in North Freedom, a team of local authors has a 240-page book it would like to show you. This month 600 copies of “They Led Us to Today,” an illustrated ...

This is the insight Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux bring to “The Triumph of Economic Freedom.” In their words, “he who writes history determines the future.” ...

How the University of Iowa's Center for the Book played a major hand in protecting the United States' founding documents.

Book banning never seems to leave the headlines. In fact, the American Library Association reports that there were a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books in 2023—up 65 percent from ...

New English Canaan (1637) by Thomas Morton . The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 ...

Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free for what?

In On Freedom, Yale historian Timothy Snyder describes going to Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion.Sitting in the back of a friend’s car, looking over the coast of the Black Sea from ...

(The Conversation) — The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech. Skip to content Mastodon Covering the world of religion.

In 2014, the ALA logged 183 challenged book titles. Since 2021, the United States has witnessed a surge in calls to ban or challenge books, orchestrated largely by conservative groups and aided by ...

Two new books, 'On Freedom' and 'Erasing History,' trace why the U.S. is susceptible to fascist appeals from politicians like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.