Before there such a thing as "YA," librarians struggled not just to define a genre, but to figure out how to get books in the hands of young readers.

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The 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.

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Does the Daily Show really impact people's political views?

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Historian George E. Webb recounts the intertwined relationship between solar physics and dendrochronology

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The debate on medically assisted suicide often pits Christian and secular liberal values against each other.