I love sharing middle grade biographies of ordinary and inspirational people who achieved extraordinary things with middle grade readers who are ages 9 to 12. Introducing children to these real-life ...
COLUMBIA − The State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO) has recently updated its Historic Missourians website. The freely available resource features notable people who influenced the Show-Me ...
As school book fairs and children’s library browsers can attest, there is no shortage of biographies aiming to educate young readers about the lives of historical figures, from George Washington to ...
Image: Courtesy publisher. Illustration: Reagan Allen. Say you’re looking for expert guidance on how to advance your career or build a better business. Where do you turn? There are, of course, ...
So, Women's History Month is pretty awesome. Amazing women have been blazing trails, starting revolutions, changing the world, and just generally bossin’ life since the beginning of human history.
Author and longtime Cobb County resident Marc Hyden recently released “Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Saviour,” which was internationally published in the United Kingdom and the United ...
ON the one hand, as Professor Whitney indicates, we have the ‘scientific’ school of historians, trained in research but not in writing; on the other, the ‘interpretative’ biographers who write with ...
A biography of famous Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus was named the top historical biography in 2020 by the Independent Press Award. “The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, ...
Mickey Ackerman is so looking forward to relaxing with the new summer books, he's already got his reading planned: A 3-pound biography of Dwight Eisenhower, a novel set in post-communist Budapest and ...
NEW YORK — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among ...