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Jon Meacham says ‘history is a tactile thing’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer has been named Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, the first to hold this title.
The Underground Railroad a Limited Series on Amazon Prime
From Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad is a new series that chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South.
Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker
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.