Selected biographies of historic figures featured on bbc.co.uk/history.

The man who taught government and history at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, and Princeton was on the wrong side of ...

Nigel Hamilton illuminates the conflict through a joint examination of its commanders.

Hosted by the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, PORTRAITS explores art, biography, history and identity.

The Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation will be hosting Michael G. Lee, author of the recently released book When the Band Played On, a biography of one of the most respected gay journalists of the ...

Oklahoma’s indigenous veterans can have their service cemented in history thanks to a program from the First Americans Museum.

When an elderly person dies, a library has burned down – the saying is a cliché, but has never been truer than in the case of ...

Part, Four-Hour Film Traces the Near Demise – and Ultimate Return – of the U.S. National Mammal, While Examining the Species’ ...

The Left comparing Trump to Hitler only undermines historical understanding and trivializes the horrors of Nazism and the ...

Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of ...

His coded, referential writing style and elusive profile make the enigmatic rapper an excellent subject for a biography ... rather than an authoritative history, rarely channeling the whimsy and verve ...