When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

John Hancock was once one of the wealthiest merchants in New England and among the most popular and well-respected figures of ...

In her 58 years of existence, Angelica Schuyler had one of her childhood homes in present-day Schuylerville incinerated by ...

In the Hulu drama, Brown and Ernest Kingsley Jr. shed new light on the slave narrative by way of a gifted young boy's ...

A landmark biography shows the storied conservative leader walking intellectual, journalistic, and financial tightropes.

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Miranda was inspired to create the musical after reading Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton, which won the George Washington Book Prize. In 2011, Chernow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ...

The National Constitution Center will award its 37th annual Liberty Medal to the Broadway hit Hamilton, which is celebrating ...

Author Ron Chernow, who has penned numerous biographies on historic Americans, spoke at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Private, Public, Secret,' by J. Randy Taraborrelli, learn the untold story of JFK's mistress Joan Lundberg and what her ...