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

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 ...

With July Fourth just passed and summer vacations on the agenda this year, it is a natural time to pick up a biography of a presidentor political leader. But not all biographies are created equal, and ...

So, Women's History Month is pretty awesome. Amazing women have been blazing trails, starting revolutions, changing the world, and just generally bossin’ life since the beginning of human history.

Look, I love memoirs just as much as the next person. But sometimes I want to sit down with a full-on biography. See, a memoir explores a certain set of experiences, or a particular portion of a ...

The Radium Girls, Hidden Figures, The Five and Notorious RBG are among the top 20 most popular biographies and histories of women of the last 10 years, according to Goodreads members. Goodreads has ...

“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 ...

The USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the first interactive biography (Dimensions in Testimony) ...

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 ...