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 ...

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 ...

This June 9, 2008 image provided by the Monticello Foundation shows the home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va. Several new projects launching this winter will shed light on the slaves who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, continuing from last week, I will discuss the missionary biography series published by the Korean Church Coalition ...

Like all of us, Lucas Mangope’s life trajectory had many exciting twists and turns. His illustrates a journey from the outskirts of a traditional village — Motsweding, in North West — to political ...