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Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later…

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On Saturday, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., will bestow its Kennedy Center Honors…

Billy Collins was the U.S. poet laureate at the time of the 9/11 attacks. A year later, he wrote "The…

Nine Sioux tribes have been locked in a land dispute since 1877, when the government broke a treaty setting aside…

Author and historian David McCullough has explored the French influence on American life throughout his career. Jeffrey Brown and McCullough…