Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an ...

A Houston-based musician and teacher is raising funds to print copies of his two-volume set of classic Venezuelan folk music.

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.

Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in ...