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 ...

For fans of: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward In these tumultuous times, average citizens and leaders alike have been turning to the words of James Baldwin ...

The centuries shift our values and our interests, and the lives of saints take on new meanings. So it is with St. Francis, who now cannot go forward in a biography without Lady Clare, who chose to ...

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 ...

A biography is a non-fiction text about someone's life. Biographies are true pieces of text, based on fact, so biographers (the people who write biographies) have to do a lot of research. They use ...

V.K. Krishna Menon, India’s defence minister before and during the 1962 Sino-Indian war, was not a popular figure with the service chiefs, who nicknamed him ‘God Almighty’ for his overbearing ways.

With today marking International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month in full swing, this month is as good a time as any to champion women empowerment and give back to female-focused causes. And if ...