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 ...

Shortly after the publication of Lea Ypi’s 2021 memoir “Free,” which recounts her childhood in Albania before and after the ...

Barry A Murray Front Book Cover for Echoes of a Voice for Justice Anita Hackley Lambert Releases Second Historical Biography, "Echoes of a Voice for Justice: The Story of Barry A. Murray," for Black ...

What is the best way to understand history? Is history a chronological series of events driven by a multitude of factors? Could decision makers’ personal journey deepen our understanding of their ...

So, Women's History Month is pretty awesome. Amazing women have been blazing trails, starting revolutions, changing the world, and just generally bossin’ life since the beginning of human history.

A new book by Manx-born author Robert Kermeen examines the life and influence of Queen Soraya Bakhtiari, the second wife of the Shah of Iran, and poses a provocative question: Did Queen Soraya’s ...

John Bew has been awarded the 2017 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for his book Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (riverrun/Quercus). Bew won the £5,000 prize for his book, which ...

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, ...

It was through the work of an Oxford-educated, British anthropologist, who had fallen out with both the Church of England and Gandhi, that Ramachandra Guha found his path as an author and historian.