Francis Ng’ang’a’s biography, Battles and Triumphs: Portrait of a Modern Trade Unionist, by Mbothu Kamau is another in a long line of biographies and autobiographies of influential local and ...

The portrait of Robert E. Lee, which has hung for 87 years over the center of what is now the dais of the Board of Commissioners chamber in the Old Lee County Courthouse, has been moved aside to make ...

On Feb. 6, 1967, Muhammad Ali stepped into a boxing ring in the Houston Astrodome to take on then-heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. Ali was nursing a serious grudge against Terrell, who kept ...

When author Amborish Roychoudhury started writing Raj Khosla: The Authorized Biography, he discovered that people around him didn't know much about Khosla's contributions to Hindi cinema. Only when he ...

Representing historical character -- Iconic biography: Izaak Walton and John Evelyn -- Iconic pictures: Van Dyck and Stuart portraiture -- Brief lives and miniatures: John Aubrey and Samuel Cooper -- ...