Anthropology and Archaeology Professor Andrew Scherer explores social and ritual contexts of precolonial Mayan violence.

Less than a week after the U.S. Naval Academy removed 381 books and literary works from its library, a local Annapolis book club staged a reading of one of the removed books at Annapolis City Dock.

In her book, anthropology professor Lisa Lucero’s book explores how the Maya survived for thousands of years by building their societies on a foundation of respect for, and integration into, the ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...

Maya Angelou will finally receive an honorary National Book Award this year. Angelou, best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is, of course, universally beloved. But why has it taken quite so ...