Robyn Gioia’s children’s book, America’s Real First Thanksgiving, is based on Michael Gannon’s scholarship that challenges the traditional Thanksgiving story. Gannon, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Florida, has uncovered the story of Pedro Menendez de Aviles:

Gannon, 80, first laid out the premise of an earlier Thanksgiving in his scholarly book […]

The 2007 National Book Awards winners were announced last night.
“Tree of Smoke,” a sweeping novel by Denis Johnson about the Vietnam War that features intersecting stories of an array of American and Vietnamese soldiers and intelligence officers, won the National Book Award for fiction last night.
Mr. Johnson, who had been widely favored to take the […]

The lawsuit has created a sensation.
Former publisher Judith Regan filed a $100-million defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and other defendants Tuesday, alleging she was asked by company officials to lie to federal investigators in order to protect Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential bid. She also charged that company officials had orchestrated a “smear campaign” […]