The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...

George Orwell knew that truth can take many ... Max Boot’s book aspires to be the “definitive” biography but it is too polemical to achieve that objective. Writing during World War II ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Love anything enough and it will reveal its secrets to you.” So said George Washington Carver, one of the world’s greatest of scientists, yet most modest of men. Glenn Clark, ...

Amanda Bynes puts on a racy display in daring top as she pursues her new career in fashion by hosting a star-studded art show ...

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

President Joe Biden used his farewell address Wednesday to do many things. He expressed his gratitude to the American people ...

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Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United ...