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 ...

David G. Gitkov has invited readers on a journey spanning continents, seas, and decades in A Long, Long Watch: Volume II: The Sea: 1925 to 1946. This remarkable historical biography chronicles ...

Author and longtime Cobb County resident Marc Hyden recently released “Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Saviour,” which was internationally published in the United Kingdom and the United ...

ON the one hand, as Professor Whitney indicates, we have the ‘scientific’ school of historians, trained in research but not in writing; on the other, the ‘interpretative’ biographers who write with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Biographies are a surprisingly controversial endeavour due to ...