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 ...

With July Fourth just passed and summer vacations on the agenda this year, it is a natural time to pick up a biography of a presidentor political leader. But not all biographies are created equal, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It's been 40 years since the publication of Antonia Fraser's award winning biography Mary Queen of ...

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 ...

History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his ...

As part of a partnership with Goodreads, Newsweek is outlining information from Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 finalists in five separate categories, providing summary and review details on everything ...

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 ...