"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural talent ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...