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.

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 ...

While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such ...

Sisters Annabel Ramirez, 17, left, and Alexis Ramirez, 17, display their biography exhibits during the inaugural Black History Month biography fair Feb. 1 at the Boys & Girls Club of Lenawee. Annabel ...

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.

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 ...