Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

What is the best way to understand history? Is history a chronological series of events driven by a multitude of factors? Could decision makers’ personal journey deepen our understanding of their ...

While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such ...

Modern-day Brits have honoured historian Ramachandra Guha for a rather unusual book that is mainly about white Brits who were severely punished for going against the British establishment of their day ...

It was through the work of an Oxford-educated, British anthropologist, who had fallen out with both the Church of England and Gandhi, that Ramachandra Guha found his path as an author and historian.

Few Americans are as surrounded by legend as George Washington is. The first President of the United States is renowned as a military genius who led his troops to victory during the Revolutionary War, ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

Traditional histories of higher education institutions tend to be academic histories or photo essays. This article describes another approach, “institutional biography” narrated with extensive oral ...