The latest Google Doodle celebrates the musical genre of mariachi—an important element of Mexico's cultural heritage. The Doodle marks the anniversary of the week that UNESCO inscribed mariachi on its ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --Google celebrates Salsa music in a new Doodle, released Monday. The search bar image features a piano, dancing feet and bright colors and coincides with Hispanic Heritage month. "It's ...

One thing you can say about most biographies is that the first part is absorbing and the rest is ho-hum. How a distinguished person became a distinguished person is interesting. Not so interesting is ...

Some books are worth reading multiple times, and “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” (2000), by Joseph J. Ellis, is one of those great works. Several years ago it had been on my summer ...