Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan reviews Msgr. Thomas Shelley's 'John Tracy Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer,' calling it "a well-documented yet very readable biography of the 'dean' of American Catholic history."

Was Teilhard de Chardin a promoter of eugenics? Two scholars debate the question.

Why don't we have fallout shelters anymore? It’s a long story, but an editor at America had something to do with it.

Irene Vallejo's history of books found an audience outside of the academy because it speaks to present concerns and speaks on behalf of many book readers.

Any science that seeks to measure our worth by measuring one trait or another is science gone wrong.

The Catholic Church played a major role in bringing tobacco to Italy, which is still the number one producer of raw tobacco in the European Union today.