Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Biographer Stacy Schiff talked about her early life including her family, education, and experience in publishing. In this lesson, students will view ...

Humor has a way of transcending time. While historical figures are often remembered for their serious achievements, many of ...

Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t like how she's characterized in a new biography about her, even though she says she hasn’t read it.

In “Pride and Pleasure,” the biographer Amanda Vaill tells the story of these complex women with warmth, humor and insight.

Gayle Cooper is one of the UVA Library's longest-tenured employees, having worked there since the Nixon administration.

The Jersey Devil is described as a grotesque creature reminiscent of a science experiment gone wrong. But is there any truth ...

Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR ...

For visitors to Philadelphia, Urban Farmer offers a taste of Pennsylvania’s agricultural heritage through a contemporary lens. For locals, it provides a reminder of the exceptional food being produced ...

Travel enabled him to cast his gaze beyond Puritan Boston and imagine fresh possibilities. What advice might the peripatetic founder offer us modern-day travelers? Here are five lessons, culled from ...

With the exception of John Quincy Adams, no other son of a Founder rose to his father’s stature. The unluckiest of all may ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...