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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Clare Jackson has won the £5,000 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography with The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I (Allen Lane). Jackson was crowned winner by chair of judges ...

As an addition to our bibliographic lists, we are beginning to collect book-length biographies of and autobiographies by ecologists and ESA members, past and present, here. Please let us know (or ...

There's never been a shortage of books on our third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln might be more Hollywood-friendly, but it's the complicated, ...

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 president or political leader. But not all biographies are created equal, ...