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 ...

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 ...

A biography of famous Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus was named the top historical biography in 2020 by the Independent Press Award. “The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, ...

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 ...

“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past.” That notion thrums through two of the most absorbing biographies of the year Tiya Miles’s *Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

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Throughout history, chilling villains have often, consistently, and ceaselessly existed. Sometimes they were deliberately erased from collective memory, and at other times, their deeds simply faded ...

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 ...