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Historian Michael Willrich was planning to write a book about civil liberties in the aftermath of Sept. 11 when he stumbled across an article from The New York Times archives.

A new book on Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi has sparked a furor in India, prompting at least one Indian state to propose banning it.The book itself hasn't been released in India yet, but politicians are reacting to a review that highlighted passages suggesting that Gandhi may have been bi-sexua

Google is getting a new CEO: Larry Page — who who co-founded Google as a young Stanford postgraduate and was briefly CEO before handing the position to the more experienced manager, Eric Schmidt — is now taking the reins.

When journalist Peter Godwin snuck into his native Zimbabwe after President Robert Mugabe lost a 2008 election, he writes that he expected "to dance on Robert Mugabe's political grave."But that was before Mugabe — the then 84-year-old leader of Zimbabwe — refused to give up power.

Fifty years ago one of the world's most notorious war criminals sat in a courtroom for a trial that would be among the first in history to be completely televised.That man was Adolf Eichmann — and he had been in charge of transporting millions of European Jews to death camps.A year before the 1961 t

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is turning to fiction writing more than three years after publishing a memoir about her career.The New York Times reports that Wilson has a book deal with Penguin Group USA for a series of international suspense novels.

In most medical schools, students recite the Hippocratic Oath together to mark the start of their professional careers.