One example I highly recommend focuses on the work, not the life, of its subject.

As Dolly Parton celebrates her 80th birthday and a new "Dolly Parton Day," a new biography by Martha Ackmann looks back at ...

Marika Green biography and filmography.

Most folks interested in SC history are familiar with the name John Rutledge. He is memorialized through one of Charleston’s downtown streets and the John Rutledge House Inn operates out of the ...

Scrutinizing her in the half-­light, we decided that the most famous icon of the modern world might just pass for a rather ...

HAIFA, Israel — Alexander Goldman, a Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Ukraine, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and professor, was born on February 3, ...

The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh.

On January 26, 1907, John Millington Synge's “The Playboy of the Western World” opened at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. The ...

During the early decades of the 15th century, King Sigismund of Hungary faced turmoil in virtually every corner of his realm.

During the 1960s several U.S. soldiers defected to North Korea. James Dresnok became the last U.S. defector to remain in ...

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleanor Holmes Norton, the 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a ...

"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball ...