Edward Henry Harriman was born in New Jersey in 1848. His father was an ordained deacon in the Presbyterian Church, his mother a well-connected socialite from New Jersey. Young Edward attended ...

C. Hart Merriam had just two months to assemble a top-flight team of scientists for the Harriman Expedition. He did not have the advantage of time, but he did have other resources, including ...

Comments by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Pamela Harriman was one of the remarkable women of the twentieth century. Her designation in 1993 as the United States ambassador to France was the culmination ...