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Were the Founding Fathers responsible for American slavery? William Lloyd Garrison, the celebrated abolitionist, certainly thought so. In an uncompromising address in Framingham, Massachusetts, on July...

I recently moved to an Indianapolis suburb and am still learning all the ins and outs of my new home. Moving from Chicago, with its abundance...

As the summer reading and beach reads season kicks into high gear, many of us here on the east coast are still getting drowned out by...

I am a lazy gardener. The best lazy gardening books for me are the ones that are about doing less, you know, do-ing. No pottering about....

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by The Plus One from HarperCollins 360. “So you’ve...