Everything you need to know about Víkingur Ólafsson – the Icelandic pianist who won his first Grammy Award for his recording ...

A once famous essay published in 1888 asked “Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents.” It’s time to dust it off.

David McCullough’s John Adams is brave yet filled with self-doubt ... This is as much a biography of the Senate as of Johnson’s time in it; readers will come away with a much deeper ...

A persistent myth about Donald Trump is that he had the Resolute Desk (made from the HMS Resolute and gifted to president ...

A. K. Smiley Public Library has many new biographies to choose from, with more coming soon. Selections include presidents, ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition ...

Katrina Adams’ journey from a determined six-year-old in Chicago to a trailblazing USTA president not only redefined her ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Although these offices have been held by military veterans from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (Vice President to John Adams before becoming President ... According to a U.S. Senate biography, ...

Anthony Hopkins was well into his fifties when he became a Hollywood leading man, especially when he won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. But ...

Robert Adams, who died 150 years ago on January 13th, “became known as the revered father of Irish surgery”, according to the entry on him in the Dictionary of Irish Biography by Helen Andrews.

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...