Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The University of Colorado at Boulder has given an honorary Ph.D. to a contentious public figure with a habit of using words like “stupidity,” “idiocy,” and ...

Howard Trafford was a 23-year-old art student in Bolton in February 1976 when he saw the headline that irrevocably altered the course of his life. It was in the NME and it read: "Don't look over your ...

“As Always, Julia” is an epistolary love story, a romance that began with a fan letter and the gift of a paring knife. The letter was to the writer and historian Bernard DeVoto, who had written in ...

It is difficult to think of a more challenging subject for a biography than Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), the prolific critic, editor, environmental activist and historian extraordinaire. And that’s ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. DeVoto addressed this letter to ...

MARK TWAIN AT WORK—Bernard DeVoto-Harvard ($2). The work of Mark Twain is America’s literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain’s America, 1932). As ...

The story of Julia Child’s life how a gawky and outgoing diplomat’s wife from Pasadena, Calif., came to write the classic “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” (1961) has been told so many times and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Blame the national hysteria around gluten, the juice craze, or the exploding interest in craft beer, but hard cider is hot right now. It occupies an interesting middle ground of being somewhere ...

Harry John DeVotoThe sun rose on the life of Harry John DeVoto, born April 11, 1918 in S. Norfolk, VA. The Sun set on his life January 2, 2003 in San Ramon, Calif., relinquishing his life to lung ...