I f you had to map the dream career of an aspiring historian, it would go something like this: First, stake out an unconventional position on a consequential question. Second, ignore the scholarly ...

The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. With “On ...

"Johnson was an important president at a pivotal moment in history," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed said in a recent telephone interview from New York. Gordon-Reed's biography on ...

Introduction: "The true index of his heart" -- The tailor's apprentice -- Ascent -- Governor and Senator Johnson -- Disunion -- From military governor to vice president -- Mr. President -- The ...

Recent and archived work by Annette Gordon-Reed for The New York Times Ms. Harris’s ascent should not come as a big surprise, both because of who we are now (and have been historically) and because of ...