The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

THE reading of biography and of autobiography must be approached at widely divergent angles. The biography is in large measure a piece of work, well or ill done;, the autobiography, if sincere, is ...

Online exhibit presenting biographies of several important Americans that reflect the circumstances of their times, providing a personal perspective on the past, and making up a fascinating and ...

"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his ...

THE fourth edition of this great work—great in two senses of the word—must not pass unnoticed in NATTTBE, and we congratulate the editors on the completion of their heavy task of revision. The number ...