Miranda was inspired to create the musical after reading Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton, which won the George ...

In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography captures William F. Buckley Jr. and the political movement that he did so much to ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...

When the weight of the free world got heavy, many U.S. presidents turned to a familiar cure: a rod, a reel, and a few quiet ...

Beneath his cowboy hat, he smuggled two ideas that were anathema to movement conservatives, neoliberalism and ...

Reagan took the traditional conservative beliefs in anti-Communism and deregulation and transformed them into faith in globalization. He believed in the assertion of both American power and American ...

Monday night at Paycom Center, Pops saw it, felt it, as his son Jalen Williams bent Game 5 of the NBA Finals to his will. The ...

If writers should be judged by their words, then Tom Arnold-Foster’s comprehensive and engaging “intellectual biography” of the legendary journalist Walter Lippmann renders a complete, balanced, and ...