National Academy of Sciences 
Biographical Memoirs [PDF ebook] 
Volume 58

John started his young life in Essex, then he moved to the East End of London. This is where he met some big villains who would become his friends. They ended up doing him some favours. Eventually, h …

In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.” For the next 40 years—even …

Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a you …

A native of Beaumont, Texas, and a World War II veteran, Jack Brooks represented Texas”s Ninth District for forty-two years in the U.S. Congress. One of the most influential congressmen you”ve neve …

"History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XIII" by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch. This …

"History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XII" by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch. This h …

"History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt" by Jacob Abbott is a captivating historical biography delving into the life of one of ancient Egypt’s most iconic figures. Abbott, a renowned author, …

"History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XIV" by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch. This h …