A once famous essay published in 1888 asked “Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents.” It’s time to dust it off.

A persistent myth about Donald Trump is that he had the Resolute Desk (made from the HMS Resolute and gifted to president ...

Katrina Adams’ journey from a determined six-year-old in Chicago to a trailblazing USTA president not only redefined her ...

A. K. Smiley Public Library has many new biographies to choose from, with more coming soon. Selections include presidents, ...

The writer, Viscount James Bryce, an English aristocrat writing for Europeans, made shrewd observations about the presidency that, in a more limited way, equal the still-famous work of Alexander de ...

David McCullough’s John Adams is brave yet filled with self-doubt ... This is as much a biography of the Senate as of Johnson’s time in it; readers will come away with a much deeper ...

Arkansas Times Recommends is a series in which Times staff members (or whoever happens to be around at the time) highlight ...

The former GP was considered by his neighbours to be a bit of a recluse, although he would sometimes venture out of his living space to mix with others if he felt sociable.

Robert Adams, who died 150 years ago on January 13th, “became known as the revered father of Irish surgery”, according to the entry on him in the Dictionary of Irish Biography by Helen Andrews.

Everything you need to know about Víkingur Ólafsson – the Icelandic pianist who won his first Grammy Award for his recording ...

Anthony Hopkins was well into his fifties when he became a Hollywood leading man, especially when he won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. But ...

Although these offices have been held by military veterans from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (Vice President to John Adams before becoming President ... According to a U.S. Senate biography, ...