Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written best-selling books about former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson, and late attorney John F. Kennedy Jr. In her most recent work, she profiles ...

The villains, of course, are the most juvenile of all. The “Wet Bandits” are so named because they flood every house they rob ...

Presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin demonstrated to a Lied Center audience Sunday night that she can talk about Abraham Lincoln better than many good scribes have written about the nation’s ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin returns to Springfield to discuss her most recent book "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" that recounts her final years with ...

Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, “was more interested in shaping history,” she says, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.” Their bond is at the heart of her new book, “An ...