Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

As I read various books from my favorite genre, historical biographies of men long since passed, I have grown an enormous ...

COLUMBIA − The State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO) has recently updated its Historic Missourians website. The freely available resource features notable people who influenced the Show-Me ...

“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past.” That notion thrums through two of the most absorbing biographies of the year Tiya Miles’s *Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the ...

A biography of famous Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus was named the top historical biography in 2020 by the Independent Press Award. “The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, ...

As an addition to our bibliographic lists, we are beginning to collect book-length biographies of and autobiographies by ecologists and ESA members, past and present, here. Please let us know (or ...

A screencap of the new database that provides biographies of nearly 1,500 Pennsylvania state senators over the past 200 years. "This is a real treasure for students of history," Pileggi said in a ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

Teachers struggled for years to find books on local historical figures written for young students. After three years of work, nine Denver Public Schools teachers have published 13 biographies to help ...

The State Historical Society of Missouri, located on Elm St., is offering a new 'Historic Mizzourians' resources on its website. The State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO) has recently updated ...