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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among ...

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 ...

Mickey Ackerman is so looking forward to relaxing with the new summer books, he's already got his reading planned: A 3-pound biography of Dwight Eisenhower, a novel set in post-communist Budapest and ...

Hester Kaplan, the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan, knew her father was an esteemed writer and researcher, but she didn’t quite know him personally. After the elder Kaplan ...

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 ...

Barry A Murray Front Book Cover for Echoes of a Voice for Justice Anita Hackley Lambert Releases Second Historical Biography, "Echoes of a Voice for Justice: The Story of Barry A. Murray," for Black ...