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 ...

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

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 ...

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As school book fairs and children’s library browsers can attest, there is no shortage of biographies aiming to educate young readers about the lives of historical figures, from George Washington to ...

Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff (Author), Galli, Mark (Editor), Olsen, Ted (Editor), Packer, J. I. (Foreword) The first issue of Christian History magazine, launched by Kenneth Curtis in ...

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 ...