In his recent biography, What Have I Done?, playwright, writer and comic Ben Elton reveals his rite-of-passage years spent at ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1978, Time magazine donated approximately eight hundred works of original cover art to the National Portrait ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the ...

On the year’s shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy’s pious mother christened him Joseph, after ...

Photogenic Faye Emerson Roosevelt and her husband (the late President’s scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their ...