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The National Constitution Center will award its 37th annual Liberty Medal to the Broadway hit Hamilton, which is celebrating ...

Author Ron Chernow, who has penned numerous biographies on historic Americans, spoke at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and ...

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, ...

Private, Public, Secret,' by J. Randy Taraborrelli, learn the untold story of JFK's mistress Joan Lundberg and what her ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes about how Billie Jean King’s ties to South Carolina make a local school district’s restriction of a biography about her even more troubling.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Ph… ...