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Author Linda Ambrus Broenniman shares her thoughts on writing a family history for a family she never knew she had.

1. “Theodore Roosevelt” by Kathleen Dalton is a colorful, deeply insightful and personal look at the “moxie”-filled life of the 26th president. Ms. Dalton moves beyond the cartoon ...

The average historical might be described as a novel ... In the end, he is undone and hanged in chains. As a drama, the book is beautifully paced. So carefully has the novelist drawn her ...

There is a saying that books can take their readers anywhere without leaving where they are. Whether fiction, history, ...

PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan stated that the biography of the late Edward Sokoine, former Prime Minister, is a fitting ...

By Kiersten White Why Jackson Pollock Owed Everything to Claude Monet A new biography of the French Impressionist argues that Monet himself owed everything to the three most important women in his ...

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Discover David Waldstreicher’s award-winning biography of Phillis Wheatley, America's first black woman poet, celebrated with ...

NEW YORK -- The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.