The complete online text of Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton.

Acknowledged as a leading American biographer of the nineteenth century, James Parton achieved both financial rewards and literary recognition. Parton set high standards for popular biography and utilized research techniques that provided useful examples...

It use to be that people like Paul Revere or Betsy Ross were the first names to come to the minds of many Americans when the topic of famous historians was up for discussion. That's not the case anymore. According to a recent...

Not including presidents or their first ladies, who would you say are -- or were -- the most famous Americans in history? Researchers recently asked that question of a diverse cross section of 2,000 high school juniors and seniors nationwide. The survey did...