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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. David G. Gitkov has invited readers on a journey spanning continents, seas, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

MINDORO - Minneapolis-area author and lecturer John J. Koblas will speak Sept. 28 at a meeting of the Friends of the Mindoro Community Library. Koblas is known for his historical biographies of ...

Jean Fritz, the author of nearly 50 books for children, most of them fast-paced, vividly written works of history and biography, died May 14 at a retirement home in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. She was 101.