I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Teachers, parents, & librarians, you’ll find the best read-aloud Black History Month books with this list of picture book biographies for February and all year round. Up until now, I haven’t ...

these books dive deep into the turning points and characters that shaped our world. You’ll find the first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer; eye-opening explorations of Africa’s ...

This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and ...

Both books benefit from earlier works published when biographies of individuals had to do the work of social history in general, filling in the people, institutions, dates and places around which ...

She wrote a devilishly fun biography of poet John Donne (“Super-Infinite”) but is best known (in England) for children’s books ... less than a revelatory history of how, from the Civil ...

His songs were literate, mocking and dense with the ghosts of American history ... complicated biography. Robert Hilburn’s new book, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography ...