Biography: Historical, Political & Military

**Edward Hay (c.1761-1826) was born into a Wexford, Catholic, landed family.** His generation spanned the era from political exclusion, due to the ...

Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen 'the most famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.' Drawing on primary sources, such as m...

This interesting study of the early American press and President Adams first discusses the fourth estate's treatment of President Washington. The n...

In 1807, Thomas Worthington was born into a wealthy and powerful Ohio family. Though his path in life should have led to fortune and prestige, he d...

The first fully-rounded portrait of the man behind the Gunpowder PlotFor hundreds of years Guy Fawkes has been portrayed as perhaps too extreme a f...

Was Philip de László a secret agent and was MI5s source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess El...

'This biography of a very important Republican woman is a vital contribution to the historical scholarship on women's partisan activism in the late...

More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years lat...

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...