Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published ...

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 ...

Fisher, J., “Historical Sketch of the Lake Superior Copper District,” Proc. Lake Superior Mining Inst. XXVII, 54-67 (1929). Hotchkiss, W. O., Rooney, W. J., and ...

Whether your child can recite from memory the names and philosophies of leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis, or they need an introduction to the pivotal Black figures who have helped shape ...

Last week, BBC History Magazine released readers' definitive ranking of the 100 most influential women in history, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Marie Curie topping the list at No. 1. Because the ...

As the stay-at-home era drags on, my reading habits have shifted. My mind can’t stick with novels anymore — my brain is somehow out of step with the fictional universe. But biographies continue to ...

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.

I recently read about an elementary school class that was studying the American Revolution. Each student chose a historical figure to write about. When the teacher asked if anyone had picked a woman, ...