Biography: Historical, Political & Military

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 ...