The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer has been named Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, the first to hold this title.

Lawrence Wright examines the path and impact of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda—an Egyptian-born surgeon whose biography, like that of his colleague, didn’t entirely match terrorist stereotypes.

Rick Atkinson will accept the Fraunces Tavern Museum 2020 Book Award for The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777.