Regardless of how you wear them, what those items all have in common is that they have a long history in the United States, helping to shape what we think about when we think of American style.

Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does.

Frank Baum and illustrated by William Wallace Denslow A modern fairy tale with a recognisably American setting, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has become a classic of children’s literature since it ...

the West’s first literature (Homer), Antigone, and eventually underpinned the rise of Christianity. Studying the Classics is fundamental to understanding western civilization and the development of ...

It's a good time to be a fan of Latin American literature. Classics that we grew up reading, like "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Pedro Paramo," and "Like Water for Chocolate" are reaching new ...