Biography: Historical, Political & Military

John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the Illinois G...

The latest title in the award-winning Great Lives from History series, The Incredibly Wealthy covers 446 extremely rich individuals from ancient ...

Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, 'only told what Reggie wanted you to know.' Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking with ...

William Thomas Scott (18391917) was an entrepreneur and political activist from East Saint Louis and Cairo, Illinois, who in 1904 briefly became th...

Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy's most respected officers of a...

Before World War I, the U.S. Marine Corps had no general officer corp. From 1899 to 1914, three line officers served in the office of commandant as...

Elliot Carlsons award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navys...

Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster was one of the leading soldier-scholars of his time. He was one of the key figures during the Cold War - one who stood am...

World War I fighter pilot William C. Lambert of Ironton, Ohio, flew for the British Royal Air Force in 1918. When he left the Western Front in A...

In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life a...

This is a life touched by tragedy and deprivation - childhood in her native. Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then ...

Ellis paints a portrait of a politician who, like many other politicians, often publicly sailed with the prevailing political winds of the day but ...

Born in 1878 to a wealthy Ukrainian family, Angelica Balabanoff broke ties with her parents and left for Europe to become one of the leading fem...

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and ac...

Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was s...

An account of the political career of Albert Luthuli, former President of the African National Congress (ANC). It centres around the launching of t...

A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war...

The son of an army officer, Conrad S. Babcock graduated from West Point in 1898, just in time for the opening of the Spanish-American War. Because ...

From his election in November 1860 to his death in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln faced constant danger from those hostile to him and to the Union ...

It could be said that Davie County, North Carolina, entered the Civil War only reluctantly. As late as February of 1861, a statewide ballot call...

Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay is one of the most intriguing, and yet one of the least-known stories of modern history.  Escaping a desperate mar...

In this second edition, historians Chuck Parsons and Donaly E. Brice present a complete picture of N. O. Reynolds (18461922), a Texas Ranger who br...

At the apex of progressive reform in Texas from 1907 to 1911, Thomas M. Campbell served as the states chief executive. Closely associated with form...

'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book Review In this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's Th...

This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western...

Hemmed in by prejudice and restrictive laws, Chinese Americans lived in a defensive crouch at the turn of the 20th century. This is the true story ...

In 1844, at age 31, James Jesse Strang converted to Mormonism. Less than a year later, he''d entered the inner circle of Joseph Smith, Jr.-founder ...