With July Fourth just passed and summer vacations on the agenda this year, it is a natural time to pick up a biography of a presidentor political leader. But not all biographies are created equal, and ...

So, Women's History Month is pretty awesome. Amazing women have been blazing trails, starting revolutions, changing the world, and just generally bossin’ life since the beginning of human history.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Look, I love memoirs just as much as the next person. But sometimes I want to sit down with a full-on biography. See, a memoir explores a certain set of experiences, or a particular portion of a ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past.” That notion thrums through two of the most absorbing biographies of the year Tiya Miles’s *Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the ...

A biography of famous Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus was named the top historical biography in 2020 by the Independent Press Award. “The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, ...