George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe ...

A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington Alexis Coe’s cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches Karin Wulf - History ...

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural ...

The National Book Foundation announced the list of nominees for the 2022 National Book Award and a biography of the late George Floyd was among the contesters for nonfiction a little over two ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Revolutionary hit musical "Hamilton" and author Ron Chernow, whose book inspired it, will be awarded the ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer.

Finalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington ...

George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796. Richard Strauss / NMAH George Washington was a man of many talents. Writing speeches ...

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.

The author of a new biography of poet Phillis Wheatley has received a $50,000 history award.

Bill O’Reilly’s 19th best seller “Confronting the Presidents.” will be published Sept. 10. It’s delicious BS from G. Washington’s wooden teeth to whatever’s left of anything Joe ...