Tuskegee Institute in Alabama is the most famous Black college in the United States. Between 1881 and 1915, its president was Booker T. Washington, who publicly urged African Americans to ...

Retired attorney and longtime trustee Brad Nahrstadt ’89 will deliver Monmouth College’s 2026 Commencement address on May 17.

Ada Overton started her theatrical career early At just 15, she joined John Isham's Black touring company, the "Octoroons.” ...

Starry and Restless" is Julia Cooke’s aptly titled biography of pioneering foreign correspondents Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Emily Hahn.

One of the US’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S.

Deeply researched, the biography follows Roosevelt’s rapid consolidation of power as he expanded the Monroe Doctrine, interfered in Latin America, reckoned with racial strife, secured an end to the ...

An accidental discovery is shedding new light on a vital piece of American history.

Talk about your executive orders ...

By Published If you or members of your book club can’t seem to get through long, heavy reads, we have some options for you: short biographies, essays, histories and other unique works of nonfiction ...

The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas ...

Conservatives have often accused socialism of being a materialistic and spiritless philosophy. The most popular version of ...