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 ...

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past.” That notion thrums through two of the most absorbing ...

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 ...

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 group biography has been around for centuries: There was Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, written some 1,900 years ago and a staple of classical education ever since; the Bishop ...

“If we are to truly understand the events that shaped history, we must understand the people who put them into being” argues The People Profiles founder Edwin Elliott, “and if we are to understand ...

The Radium Girls, Hidden Figures, The Five and Notorious RBG are among the top 20 most popular biographies and histories of women of the last 10 years, according to Goodreads members. Goodreads has ...

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 ...

Few Americans are as surrounded by legend as George Washington is. The first President of the United States is renowned as a military genius who led his troops to victory during the Revolutionary War, ...

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 ...