Of all the founding fathers of this nation, probably the least known and least understood is James Monroe, the fourth in the early line of Virginia-born United States presidents behind Washington, ...

It was widely deemed an inevitable disaster when the New York Knicks announced that they had traded for Earl "The Pearl" Monroe prior to the 1971-72 season. There wasn't a single fan in any of the ...

‘When the camera went on, she just came to life’: Monroe in 1953 (Bert Reisfeld/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock) Marilyn Monroe looks her saddest in slow motion. More and more, that tends to be ...

In 1955, Truman Capote followed Marilyn Monroe into the rest room of a New York bar to find her peering at her face in the ...

MARILYN: The Passion and the Paradox, by Lois Banner. Bloomsbury, 515 pp., $30. Over the past five decades, the attempts to understand the woman who still remains pop culture's most iconic sex symbol ...

Who did Marilyn Monroe’s estate go to? Monroe died at the young age of 36, after her third divorce. She never had children with any of her spouses — James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, or Arthur Miller.

Arthur Miller was 35 and at the top of his career when, in 1951, he first set eyes on Marilyn Monroe. He was the author of “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” the first play to win all three ...